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Women and Work in Globalizing Asia de Dong-Sook S. Gills

Women and Work in Globalizing Asia: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Autor Dong-Sook S. Gills, Nicola Piper
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 dec 2001
This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and also includes an analysis of Asian immigrants working in the US.
This book is an invaluable resource, accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of women's studies, labour relations, international political economy and Asian studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415255868
ISBN-10: 0415255864
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

'This book develops unique insights into how the processes associated with economic globalisation are impinging upon the lives of ordinary women workers ... the value of this book is in its contribution to debates surrounding the impact of globalisation.' - Millennium, Juanita Elias

'Represents a worthy and comprehensive examination of the dynamics and challenges that neo-liberal economic globalisation has placed on women as workers in globalising Asia.' - Labour & Industry

Cuprins

introduction Neoliberal economic globalisation and women in Asia, Dong-Sook S. Gills; Chapter 1 Globalisation and counter-globalisation, Dong-Sook S. Gills; Chapter 2 Risutora and women in the Japanese labour force, Beverley Bishop; Chapter 3 Global capital and local patriarchy, Uhn Cho; Chapter 4 The economic reform and feminisation of labour in agriculture, Chaya Degaonkar, Dong-Sook S. Gills; Chapter 5 Responses to changing labour relations, Michele Ford; Chapter 6 Facing a new revolution in Vietnam, Mila Rosenthal; Chapter 7 Working for global factories, Sally Theobald; Chapter 8 The stratification of the garment and textile industries and labour movements in Malaysia, Vicki Crinis; Chapter 9 Adjusting to urban capital, Minghua Zhao, Jackie West; Chapter 10 Global labour markets and national responses, Nicola Piper; Chapter 11 Asian women immigrants in the US fashion garment industry, Evelyn Hu-DeHart;

Notă biografică

Dong-Sook S. Gills is Senior Lecturer in sociology of gender at the University of Sunderland. She is affiliated faculty at the Elizabethan Research Center, University of Hawaii and an International Advisory Council member of the TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. Her recent publications include Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development (1999) and, co-authored with Barry Gills, Globalization and Strategic Choice in South Korea: Economic Reform and Labour (2000).,
Nicola Piper is Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. She is the author of Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship – Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany (1998).

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This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women.