Re: [Marxism] New Women's Studies Book, "Textures of Struggle"

[Jonathan Hall <jlh98@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Marxism Mailing List Members,
 
Cornell University Press is proud to announce the publication of an exciting 
new book by University of Buffalo Professor Piya Pangsapa:  Textures of 
Struggle:  The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand.

<http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4727>http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4727

Please take a look at the link above, and if you like what you see, by all 
means let us know.  We will be able to offer all members of this list a special 
20% discount.  (Either contact us by calling 607-277-2211 or via online at our 
website  <http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/>www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.  
Please use Promotional Code "CUA6" when making your order to receive your 20% 
discount.)
 
Thank you for your time and interest.  Hope you enjoy the book!
 
Best,
 
Jonathan Hall
Cornell University Press
 
 
Advance Praise for Textures of Struggle:
 
"Piya Pangsapa opens a valuable new window onto the lives and aspirations of 
Thai women toiling on the global assembly line. Pangsapa's case studies explore 
how women live with and adapt to the demands and constraints of industrial 
labor, demonstrating the complex and varied ways in which women's experiences 
are shaped both by different modes of labor management and by the shifting 
booms and busts of global capitalism. Textures of Struggle offers a moving 
portrait of Thai workers and the difficult choices they face, both on and off 
the factory floor."­Mary Beth Mills, Colby College

"This book knocks another few nails in the coffin of the reactionary stereotype 
of the timid, unmilitant, fatalistic woman sweatshop worker. Through insightful 
ethnography, Piya Pangsapa takes us into the lives of some bold, militant, and 
politically effective women workers and helps explain their successes and 
setbacks in the context of the political economy of Thailand and the Global 
South as a whole."­Leslie Sklair, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London 
School of Economics, author of Globalization: Capitalism and its Alternatives

"This book provides a much-needed analysis of the voices and experiences of 
women garment workers in Thailand about their accommodation and resistance amid 
economic restructuring before and after the East Asian crisis. Ethnographic 
studies of multiple rural and urban factories revealed how long-term women 
workers with comparable backgrounds and deplorable working conditions either 
intensified their intersecting work experiences and socio-emotional connections 
as a survival strategy and/or connected with workers from other factories and 
outside organizations to jointly resist their working conditions. These 
strategies may be time- and place-dependent, while generating directions for 
future research in different countries and regions on the continually evolving 
and shifting global assembly line."­Kathryn B. Ward, Southern Illinois 
University at Carbondale

Jonathan Hall
Publicity Manager
Cornell University Press
512 E. State St. /  Ithaca, NY 14850
607.277.2338, x252 / Fax  607.277.2374
FIND A BOOK: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_subject.html  
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