Women Workers and Global Restructuring

Published by Cornell University Press 1990

Women Workers and Global Restructuring

Edited by: Kathryn Ward

In the series Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717086

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"A compendium of cutting-edge research on the changing roles of gender in the context of continuing transformations of the global relations between labor and capital."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Kathryn Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL WORK
2. LINKING WOMEN'S LABOR WITH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: FACTORY WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN RURAL JAVA Diane L. Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. DISGUISED INDUSTRIAL PROLETARIANS IN RURAL LATIN AMERICA: WOMEN'S INFORMAL-SECTOR FACTORY WORK AND THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF COFFEE FARM LABOR IN COLOMBIA Cynthia Truelove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. "FACON": WOMEN'S FORMAL AND INFORMAL WORK IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY IN KAVALA, GREECE Joanna Hadjicostandi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
PART II. THE ROLE OF THE STATE
5. EXPORT-LED DEVELOPMENT AND THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN: THE IMPACT OF DISCRIMINATORY DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Jean L. Pyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. WOMEN'S WORK AND WOMEN'S PLACE IN THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC MIRACLE Larry S. Carney and Charlotte G. O’Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
PART III. RESISTANCE AND AMBIVALENCE
7. "THEIR LOGIC AGAINST THEM": CONTRADICTIONS IN SEX, RACE, AND CLASS IN SILICON VALLEY Karen J. Hossfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
8. WOMEN AND THE EXPORT INDUSTRY IN TAIWAN: THE MUTING OF CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS Rita S. Gallin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
9. MAQUILADORA WOMEN: A NEW CATEGORY OF WORKERS? Susan Tiano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 324
Illustrations
- Other: 1 table
Keywords: Womens Studies; Sociology & Social Science

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Published: May 31, 2018
ISBN: 9781501717086