Women and Work in
Globalising Asia
One of the most important aspects of globalisation is the discord between the liberal ideology that drives economic globalisation and the politics of workers rights. In the patriarchal societies of Asia it is often women who are worst hit by poor working conditions, long hours and low pay.
Women and Work in Globalising Asia is an attempt to shed light on the real experiences of women in these Asian societies, exploring the impact of globalisation through the changing nature of the labour of women, whether urban or rural, at home or at work.
The result is a comprehensive survey of women and work, using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and China and from Asian immigrants working in the US.
This book should be 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).
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
1 The Changing Capital Markets of East Asia
Edited by Ky Cao
2 Financial Reform in China
Edited by On Kit Tam
3 Women and Industrialization in Asia
Edited by Susan Horton
4 Japan's Trade Policy
Action or reaction?
Yumiko Mikanagi
5 The Japanese Election System
Three analytical perspectives
Junichiro Wada
6 The Economics of the Latecomers
Catching-up, technology transfer and institutions in Germany, Japan and South Korea
Jang-Sup Shin
7 Industrialization in Malaysia
Import substitution and infant industry performance
Rokiah Alavi
8 Economic Development in Twentieth Century East Asia
The international context
Edited by Aiko Ikeo
9 The Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia
Contending perspectives
Edited by Ian Chalmers and Vedi R. Hadiz
10 Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim
Edited by Sally M. Miller, A.J.H. Latham and Dennis O. Flynn
11 Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia
Vedi R. Hadiz
12 The Japanese Foreign Exchange Market
Beate Reszat
13 Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Asian Countries
Edited by Stefan Collignon, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Yung Chui Park
14 Chinese Firms and Technology in the Reform Era
Yizheng Shi
15 Japanese Views on Economic Development
Diverse paths to the market
Kenichi Ohno and Izumi Ohno
16 Technological Capabilities and Export Success in Asia
Edited by Dieter Ernst, Tom Ganiatsos and Lynn Mytelka
17 Trade and Investment in China
The European experience
Edited by Roger Strange, Jim Slater and Limin Wang
18 Technology and Innovation in Japan
Policy and management for the 21st century
Edited by Martin Hemmert and Christian Oberlnder
19 Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development
Prema-chandra Athukorala
20 Economic Integration in the Asia Pacific Region
Ippei Yamazawa
21 Japan's War Economy
Edited by Erich Pauer
22 Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia
Industry and firm studies
Edited by K.S. Jomo, Greg Felker and Rajah Rasiah
23 Technology. Competitiveness and the State
Malaysia's industrial technology policies
Edited by K.S. Jomo and Greg Felker
24 Corporatism and Korean Capitalism
Edited by Dennis L. McNamara
25 Japanese Science
Samuel Coleman
26 Capital and Labour in Japan
The functions of two factor markets
Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Atsuhiro Taki
27 Asia Pacific Dynamism 15502000
Edited by A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu
28 The Political Economy of Development and Environment in Korea
Jae-Yong Chung and Richard J.R. Kirkby
29 Japanese Economics and Economists since 1945
Edited by Aiko Ikeo
30 China's Entry into the World Trade Organisation
Edited by Peter Drysdale and Ligang Song
31 Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre
Emergence and development 19451965
Catherine R. Schenk
32 Impediments to Trade in Services
Measurement and policy implication
Edited by Christopher Findlay and Tony Warren
33 The Japanese Industrial Economy
Late development and cultural causation
Ian Inkster
34 China and the Long March to Global Trade
The accession of China to the World Trade Organization
Edited by Alan S. Alexandroff, Sylvia Ostry and Rafael Gomez
35 Capitalism Development and Economics in East Asia
Kui-Wai Li
36 Women and Work in Globalising Asia
Edited by Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper
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