Women and Work in Globalizing Asia
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Fire Exits
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Garment Industry
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gendered labour migration
Heavy Chemical Industrialisation
IMF Crisis
Immigrant Women Workers
Indonesian Migrant Workers
Indonesian Women's Work
Indonesian Women’s Work
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Johor Bahru
KSS
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Maquila Solidarity Network
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Migrant Domestic Workers
Migrant Women Workers
Neoliberal Economic Globalisation
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Peasant Workers
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Solidaritas Perempuan
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- ISBN 9780415255868
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. 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.
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).
