Global Women's Work
Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2018
Book
Hardback
402 pages
978-1-138-03658-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women's labor force participation and workplace activism.
The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women's agency within the context of changing economic options; and women's negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.
The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women's agency within the context of changing economic options; and women's negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.
Reviews / Votes
"This compelling collection explores how social provisioning processes have been affected by changes in the political economy following global financial crisis, especially tensions between the feminization of labor under neoliberalism and socially conservative authoritarian nationalism. Engrossing accounts of women's collective agency in negotiating this new terrain will be relevant for scholars and students across many disciplines."Ellen Mutari, Professor of Economics, Stockton University, USA
"Fascinating economic perspectives on 16 developed and developing countries [...] I find particularly important the evidence of a reinvigorated alliance between conservative traditionalism regarding the family and marginalisation of women in the economy, in countries as diverse as the US, Russia and Iran."
Frances Raday, President, Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel, The Haim Striks School of Law, COLMAN; Special Rapporteur, UN Human Rights Council, Expert Group on Discrimination against Women
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
18 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 17 s/w Zeichnungen, 11 s/w Tabellen
11 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
798 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-03658-1 (9781138036581)
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Beth English | Mary E. Frederickson | Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Global Women's Work
Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy
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12/2018
1st Edition
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Beth English | Mary E. Frederickson | Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Global Women's Work
Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy
E-Book
12/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€69.99
Available for download
Beth English | Mary E. Frederickson | Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Global Women's Work
Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy
Book
11/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Beth English is Director of the Project on Gender in the Global Community at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Mary E. Frederickson is a Visiting Professor at Emory University in the Rollins School of Public Health, and Professor of History Emerita at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she taught from 1988 to 2015.
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies Program and the Social Justice Certificate at the University of Cincinnati.
Mary E. Frederickson is a Visiting Professor at Emory University in the Rollins School of Public Health, and Professor of History Emerita at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she taught from 1988 to 2015.
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies Program and the Social Justice Certificate at the University of Cincinnati.
Content
Introduction: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy Beth English, Mary E. Frederickson, and Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama Part I. Women's Agency 1. Recognizing the Home Workplace: Making Workers through Global Labor Standards, Eileen Boris 2. Empowerment Revisited: Capitalist Development and Women Workers in China's Reform Era, Xiaodan Zhang 3. Peasant Women's Agency in Bolivia during the Global Recession: The Movement of the Confederacion Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Indigenas Originarias y Afrodescendentes de Bartolina Sisa, Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen 4. Global Women's Work in Transition: The Case of Entrepreneurial Bolivian Women in apparel production in Sao Paulo, 2013-2014, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera and Joao Paulo Candia Veiga 5. Gender Equality in the European Employment Strategy, Gabriella Berloffa, Eleonora Matteazzi, and Paola Villa 6. From Sister to Co-Worker: New Patterns of Feminization of Labor in Turkey, Esra Sarioglu 7. Gender, work, and recession: two views from the United States, Brigid O'Farrell Part II. Exploitation vs. Opportunity 8. Women in the Russian Labor Force: A Retreat from Equality?, Carol Nechemias 9. Working Poor Women in Mexico Facing Another Crisis: Domestic Workers, Struggling with Structural Disadvantages, and the 2008 Recession, Georgina Rojas-Garcia and Monica Patricia Toledo Gonzalez 10. Women's Work in Kenya's Athi River Export Processing Zone: Opportunity or Exploitation?, Kelly Pike 11. Women and Trade Liberalization in Egypt, Heba Nasssar 12. Women's University Attainment and Labor Force Participation in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, Alessandra L. Gonzalez 13. The Politics of Women and Work in Iran, Valentine M. Moghadam Part III. Negotiations of Social and Reproductive Labor 14. Change and the Status Quo in Home-Based Industry in South Tamil Nadu, India: Women Beedi Workers Confront Shifts in the Organization of Labor and Capital, Meena Gopal 15. Mexican and Puerto Rican Women in Chicago: A Gendered Analysis of the 2008 Recession, Ivis Garcia and Maura I. Toro-Morn 16. The Economic Crisis and Women's Part-Time Work in Hungary, Erika Kispeter 17. Gendered austerity policies: inequality on the rise in the European Union including Ireland, Ursula Barry 18. From Kick-Start to U-Turn? Gender Equality in Sweden, Anita Nyberg