{"id":24156,"date":"2016-01-01T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T08:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:42:09","slug":"symposium-global-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/symposium-global-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Futures: Perspectives on Labor from the Global South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing Room<br \/>\nKnight Library<br \/>\n1501 Kincaid St.<br \/>\nUO campus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/symposium-global-markets\/working-futures-poster\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24323\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Working-Futures-poster-200x300.gif\" alt=\"Working-Futures-poster\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Working-Futures-poster-200x300.gif 200w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Working-Futures-poster-100x150.gif 100w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Working-Futures-poster-260x390.gif 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Working-Futures-poster-160x240.gif 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Economic globalization has fundamentally reshaped class and gender dynamics around the world. It has brought millions of young women to work in urban industrial and service sectors, introducing new social roles, aspirations, and modes of precarity. In the industrial sector, labor has become increasingly militant in its demands for decent livelihoods. The symposium brings together scholarship from China, Bangladesh, and the Caribbean to critically examine labor dynamics that ensue from these transformations.<\/p>\n<p>Presentations:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CARLA FREEMAN: Professor, Anthropology and Women\u2019s Studies, Emory University<br \/>\nThe Affect of Work-Life under Neoliberalism<\/li>\n<li>LAMIA KARIM: Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Oregon<br \/>\nThe Machine Women: Lifestyle Changes in the Garment Industry in Bangladesh<\/li>\n<li>CHING KWAN LEE: Professor, Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles \u2018Precarization\u2019 or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China<\/li>\n<li>EILEEN OTIS: Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Oregon<br \/>\nWorlds of Work in Walmart, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), Sociology, Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Economic globalization has fundamentally reshaped class and gender dynamics around the world. It has brought millions of young women to work in urban industrial and service sectors, introducing new social roles,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/symposium-global-markets\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":24323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17,105,70,44,5,59],"tags":[204,515,516,73,158],"class_list":["post-24156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-affiliates","category-labor","category-microfinance","category-public-policy","category-research","category-womens-rights","tag-eileen-otis","tag-global-south","tag-labor","tag-lamia-karim","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32992,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions\/32992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}