![]() If globalization has indeed sharply separated global present from national and local past, then a historian reader expects to be surprised with each page turned. In these five books, a new generation of scholars in women and gender studies begin to sort out the meaning and consequences of globalization for women's labor. It was an emerging sense of globality as a sharp rupture from the past that produced so much exciting theory (although also much "global babble" and "globaloney") in the 1990s. ![]() ![]() In our postcommunist, postsocialist, post-Maoist, postmodern, neoliberal era, the changes associated with globalization-which include rapid, long-distance movements of capital, labor, images and ideas-seem capable of radically transforming the lives, identities, options, and desires of laborers everywhere. ![]()
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