Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable Third World woman. This myth explains how young women workers around the world eventually turn into living forms of waste. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism follows this myth inside the global factories and surrounding cities in northern Mexico and in southern China,...

• Explores the nexus of power and space behind the rescaling of contemporary social, economic and political life.


• Organized into three sections on theorizing scale, the discourses and rhetorics of scale, and scales of activism.
  
• Will stimulate discussion about how conceptions and visions of scale inform all aspects of social life.