@book{017ed89243c844c09a040f0b0ada6f4e,
title = "Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism",
abstract = "Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable Third World woman. This myth explains how young women workers around the world eventually turn into living forms of waste. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism follows this myth inside the global factories and surrounding cities in northern Mexico and in southern China, illustrating the crucial role the tale plays in maintaining not just the constant flow of global capital, but the present regime of transnational capitalism. The author also investigates how women challenge the story and its meaning for workers in global firms. These innovative responses illustrate how a politics for confronting global capitalism must include the many creative ways that working people resist its dehumanizing effects.",
author = "Wright, {Melissa W.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the MINECO (Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and FEDER funds, under the PRISMA project (CGL2012-39623-C02/00) and project TEC2015-63832-P), the MAGRAMA (Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment), the Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR 2014 SGR33, and the Departament de Territori I Sostenibilitat). This work has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement 654109 (ACTRIS-2). M. Pandolfi is funded by a Ram?n y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-2013-14036) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. G. Titos is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under postdoctoral programme Juan de la Cierva-formaci?n (FJCI-2014-20819). We thank Alberto Cazorla for in-depth discussion about the ceilometer data processing. Ana Calvo is thankfully acknowledged for helpful discussion on the optical spectrometer and providing the diameters correction. The authors acknowledge the computer resources, technical expertise, and assistance provided by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center for the BSC-DREAM8b and NMMB/BSC-Dust models. The authors express gratitude to EUMETSAT for the valuable information supplied. Thanks are due to AERONET and RIMA networks for the scientific and technical support and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Environment for providing PM10 data from the Spanish air quality monitoring stations. Sun photometer data have been downloaded from AERONET webpage (http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/). In situ data measured at MSA are accessible in a yearly basis at the World Data Center for Aerosols website (http://ebas.nilu.no/). All raw data used to produce the results of the paper are available from the author upon request (gloria.titos@idaea.csic.es). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9780203390313",
language = "English (US)",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis",
address = "United States",
}
