Women and Work in Globalizing Asia

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-25586-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gills, Dong-Sook S

Piper, Nicola

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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).