Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (Paperback)

Preface

1. Introduction: Reaching for the Global
Michael Burawoy

PART ONE • GLOBAL FORCES
Introduction to Part One

2. Global Discourses of Need:
Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary
LynneHaney

3· Excavating "Globalization" from Street Level:
Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts
Teresa Gowan

4· Degradation without Deskilling:
Twenty-Five Years in the San Francisco Shipyards
Joseph A. Blum

PART TWO· GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Introduction to Part Two

5· "Dirty Nurses" and "Men Who Play":
Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
Sheba George

6. Net-Working for a Living:
Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace
Sean 6 Riain

7. Traveling Feminisms:
From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship
Millie Thayer

PART THREE· GLOBAL IMAGINATIONS
Introduction to Part Three

8. Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland:
Multinational Capital and Greens Vie for Village Allegiance
Zsuz.sa Gille

g. Contesting the Global City:
Pittsburgh's Public Service Unions Confront a Neoliberal Agenda
Steven H. Lopez

10. From Private Stigma to Global Assembly:
Transforming the Terrain of Breast Cancer
Maren Klawiter

CONCLUSION
11. Grounding Globalization

Michael Burawoy
Bibliography
Index