Informationen zum Autor Faranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Women's Empowerment: Participation in Shelter Strategies at the Community Level in Urban Informal Settlements and editor(with David Wilson and Ken Salo) of Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World, (with Neema Kudva) Cities of the Global South Reader, and (with Victoria A. Beard and Chris Silver) Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South. Klappentext Faranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Women s Empowerment: Participation in Shelter Strategies at the Community Level in Urban Informal Settlements and editor(with David Wilson and Ken Salo) of Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World, (with Neema Kudva) Cities of the Global South Reader, and (with Victoria A. Beard and Chris Silver) Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. Beardstown: A Place in the World 1. Welcome to Porkopolis 2. It All Changed Overnight Part II. Displaced Labor 3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People" 4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo" 5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S." Part III. Outsourced Lives 6. Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction Part IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People 7. We Wanted Workers 8. We Got People Conclusion: The Global in my Backyard Appendix 1: Population and Labor Tables Appendix 2: Schedule and Profile of Interviewees Notes References Index

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Introduction

Part I. Beardstown: A Place in the World

1. Welcome to Porkopolis

2. It All Changed Overnight

   Part II. Displaced Labor

3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People"
4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo"

5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."

   Part III. Outsourced Lives

6. Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction

   Part IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People

7. We Wanted Workers

8. We Got People
   Conclusion: The Global in my Backyard

   Appendix 1: Population and Labor Tables
   Appendix 2: Schedule and Profile of Interviewees
   Notes
   References
   Index