Based on extended field research in India, Bangladesh and Japan and also on a broad comparative study of trends within international feminism, this book provides a theoretical interpretation of the rapidly changing economic conditions in Asia and their consequences for women.
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Foreword - Gerrit Huizer
Feminism and the Conceptualisation of Women's Labour in Asian Economies
PART ONE: THE DISCOURSE ON WOMEN'S LABOUR IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Patriarchal Bias of Working Class Theoreticians
Karl Marx and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The Proletarian Women's Movement in Germany and the Analysis of Women's Work
The Legacy of the Second Feminist Wave
The Debate on Household Labour Revisited
PART TWO: INDUSTRIAL WORK OF WOMEN IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH
Homebased Women Labourers in the Garment Industry in West Bengal
Wage-Slavery by Women Garment Workers under the Factory System in Bangladesh
The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Housewifisation
WOMEN'S ROLE AS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Developmental Feminism and the Analysis of Peasant Women's Labour in Bangladesh
The Ecofeminist Discourse and the Work of Rural Women in India
The German Feminist School and the Thesis on Subsistence Labour
PART THREE: JAPANISATION AND WOMEN'S LABOUR
The Japanese Style of Management Compared to Its Percursor, Fordism
Women in the Japanese Economy as a Vast Reserve Army of Labour
Conclusion
Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Asia
