Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy

Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild

Granta Books, 2003 - Business & Economics - 328 pages

This anthology examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before. Every year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Eastern Europe to work in the homes, nurseries and brothels of the First World - from Vietnamese mail-order brides to Mexican nannies in LA, from Thai girls in Vietnamese brothels to Czech au pairs in the UK. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries to ease a care deficit, is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. Is the main resource now extracted from the Third World no longer gold or silver, but love?

About the author

Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites"; "The Worst Years of Our Lives"; "Fear of Falling", which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, & eight other books. A frequent contributor to Time, Harper's, Esquire, The New Republic, Mirabella, The Nation, The New York Magazine, she lives near Key West, Florida. Arlie Russell Hochschild, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, THE SECOND SHIFT and THE MANAGED HEART. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy
• Editors: Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Granta Books, 2003
• ISBN: 1862075883, 9781862075887
• Length: 328 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Labor / General; Business & Economics / Women in Business; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Minority Studies; Social Science / Prostitution & Sex Trade; Social Science / Women's Studies