Work & Daily Life in Global Capitalism

MIGRATION, WORK, AND DAILY LIFE

Fall 2008

Instructor:
Van Truong

BOOK SUGGESTIONS FOR FIRST ESSAY:

Dewi Anggraeni, Dreamseekers: Indonesian Women as Domestic Workers in Asia (Equinox Publishing, 2006).

Javier Auyero, Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita (Duke University Press, 2000).

David Bacon, Communities without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration (ILR Press, 2006).

David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, 1st ed. (Beacon Press, 2008).

Samuel L. Baily, Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914 (Cornell University Press, 2004).

Belinda Bozzoli and Mmantho Nkotsoe, Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-83 (James Currey Ltd, 1998).

Jan Breman, Footloose Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

John Chalcraft, The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2008).

Ryszard Cholewinski, Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997).

John Cross, Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City (Stanford University Press, 1998).

Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

Diane Frost, Work and Community Among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool University Press, 1999).

Dorothy B Fujita-Rony, American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).

Patrick Harries, Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910 (Heinemann, 1994).

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (University of California Press, 2001).

Dolores Huerta and Rick Nahmias, The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers (University of New Mexico Press, 2008).

Peter Kwong, Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor (New Press, 1999).

Walton Look Lai, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

Christopher M. Lawrence, Blood and Oranges: Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece (Berghahn Books, 2007).

Adam McKeown, Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936 (University Of Chicago Press, 2001).

Ruth Milkman, L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers And the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement (Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2006).

T. Dunbar Moodie, Going for Gold: Men, Mines, and Migration (University of California Press, 1994).

Rachel Murphy, How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Lara Putnam, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

Lesley A. Sharp, The Possessed and the Dispossessed : Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care (University of California Press, 1996).

Dorothy Shineberg, The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930 (University of Hawaii Press, 1999).

Diane Singerman, Avenues of Participation : Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo (Princeton University Press, 1996).

Dorothy J. Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market, 1st ed. (University of California Press, 1999).

Lay Lee Tang, Statelessness, Human Rights And Gender: Irregular Migrant Workers from Burma in Thailand (Brill Academic Pub, 2005).

Aili Mari Tripp, Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (University of California Press, 1997).

Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter, How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor (University of California Press, 2003).