| The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, Globalization Contributor(s): Tyner, James A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415958067 ISBN-13: 9780415958066 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence. The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, and Globalization seeks to understand how the Philippines has become the world's largest exporter of government-sponsored temporary contract labor and, in the process, has dramatically reshaped both the processes of globalization and also our understanding of globalization as concept. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 331.625 |
| LCCN: 2008006967 |
| Series: Global Realities |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.70 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nearly five million migrant workers from the Philippines are employed in over 190 countries and territories. They work as doctors and domestic helpers, engineers and entertainers, seamstresses and surveyors. It is through their collective labor that the Philippines has assumed a global presence. For over five centuries the Philippines has been integrated into the world economy. Only recently, however, has the Philippines been a pro-active agent in the production of a global economy. Since the 1970s the Philippine state, in connection with myriad private institutions, has recruited, trained, marketed, and deployed a mobile work-force. Annually, approximately one million migrant workers travel to all corners of the world. The Philippines seeks to understand how the Philippines has become the world's largest exporter of government-sponsored temporary contract labor and, in the process, has dramatically reshaped both the processes of globalization and also our understanding of globalization as concept. |
