Introduction : labor transformation and networks of resistance -- Labor, race, and Homer Plessy's freedom claim -- Transformation and resistance : a war of images in the post-Plessy south -- "I got so mad, I just had to get something off my chest" : the contested terrain of women's organizations...

This book looks at firms which have developed export trade in Sub-Saharan economies, and how they have sustained their competitiveness in the face of rapid technological change in the international economy