Women workers and global restructuring /
Since economists traditionally focus on market activities, women's non-wage labour has not been registered in works on economic development. On the other hand, women's wage labour has been described as supplementary or marginal to the household income as well as to economic development as...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
ILR Press, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University,
©1990.
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Colección: | Cornell international industrial and labor relations reports ;
no. 17. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Interconnections between formal and informal work. Linking women's labor with the global economy : factory workers and their families in rural Java / Diane L. Wolf
- 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
- Façon : women's formal and informal work in the garment industry in Kavala, Greece / Joanna Hadjicostandi
- pt. 2. The role of the state. Export-led development and the underemployment of women : the impact of discriminatory development policy in the Republic of Ireland / Jean L. Pyle
- Women's work and women's place in the Japanese economic miracle / Larry S. Carney and Charlotte G. O'Kelly
- pt. 3. Resistance and ambivalence. "Their logic against them" : contradictions in sex, race, and class in Silicon Valley / Karen J. Hossfeld
- Women and the export industry in Taiwan : the muting of class consciousness / Rita S. Gallin
- Maquiladora women : a new category of workers? / Susan Tiano.