Global Heartland

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.

Introduction
Part I. Beardstown: A Place in the World
1. Welcome to Porkopolis
2. It All Changed Overnight
Part II. Displaced Labor
3. "Michoacá n'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