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Migrating from Exploitation to Dignity.

by SIRS Publishing, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 59Business. Publisher: Multinational Monitor, 2001ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Alien labor | Employee rights | Labor movement | Sweatshops | Wages -- Women | Women -- Employment | Women immigrantsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Many [female immigrants to the U.S.] find jobs in the garment, restaurant, hotel, electronics and healthcare industries and as domestic, farm, homecare and custodial workers--basically, low-paid jobs in the manufacturing, high-tech, agricultural and service industries. The women encounter racism and national chauvinism within traditionally sex-segregated industries, and sexism and national chauvinism within race-segregated industries." (MULTINATIONAL MONITOR) The magazine interviews Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, author of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.

Originally Published: Migrating from Exploitation to Dignity, Oct. 2001; pp. 24-29.

"Many [female immigrants to the U.S.] find jobs in the garment, restaurant, hotel, electronics and healthcare industries and as domestic, farm, homecare and custodial workers--basically, low-paid jobs in the manufacturing, high-tech, agricultural and service industries. The women encounter racism and national chauvinism within traditionally sex-segregated industries, and sexism and national chauvinism within race-segregated industries." (MULTINATIONAL MONITOR) The magazine interviews Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, author of Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory.

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