Women Workers in Industrialising Asia Costed not valued 1st Edition by Amarjit Kaur ISBN 9780230596702 0230596703
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Authors:Amarjit Kaur , Series:Mechanical engineering [180] , Tags:Engineering; Mechanical , Author sort:Kaur, Amarjit , Languages:Languages:eng , Published:Published:Nov 2004 , Publisher:Wiley , Comments:Comments:General Editors: Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, JudgeInstitute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of JesusCollege, Cambridge, England; and Malcolm Falkus, Emeritus Professor ofEconomic History, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales,AustraliaIn the last decades of the twentieth century the small and medium-sizednations of East and Southeast Asia have begun a process of potentially enormouspolitical and economic transformation. Explosive growth has occurredalready in many parts of the region, and the more slowly growing countries areattempting to emulate this vanguard group. The impact of the region upon theworld economy has increased rapidly and is likely to continue to do so in thefuture.In order to understand better economic developments within this vast anddiverse region, this series aims to publish books on both contemporary andhistorical issues. It includes works both by Western scholars and by economistsfrom countries within the region.
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Author: Amarjit Kaur
Women Workers in Industrialising Asia Costed not valued 1st Edition Table of contents:
1 Framing Women Workers in Asia: Gender-Related Socio-Demographic and Developmental Indicators
Introduction
Population and population growth
Fertility
Life expectancy
Infant and maternal mortality
Poverty and human development
Human poverty index (HPI)
The concept of development and the HDI
Gender development and empowerment indices
Education
Labour force participation
Some concluding remarks
2 Economic Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation and Labour-Intensive Export Manufactures: An Asian Pe
Introduction
Economic globalisation, past and present: everything changes and nothing changes
Trade liberalisation as development strategy and economic growth in Asia
Conceptualising the new globalisation
Changing contexts of women’s employment
Production niches, labour-intensive manufactures and women workers
3 Female Wage Labour in Perspective
Introduction
The industrial revolution and women’s employment in historical perspective
The factory system and changing contexts of women’s employment
Impact of the factory system on the family economy
Technological change and female wage employment
Continuity and change: industrialisation and women workers
4 Women, Work and Household in Industrialising Asia
Introduction
Gender divisions and patterns of industrialisation: regional diversities
Parting of ways: feminisation of labour in Southeast Asia in the 1970s
‘Outside departments of factories’: women and home-based work
Changing the family: marriage and home management
Concluding remarks
5 The Global Factory: Cross-Border Production Networks and Women Workers in Asia
Introduction
Trade strategies for development
Framing the global factory
Women factory workers: cogs on the global assembly-line
6 Sub-Contracting, Small-Batch Production and Home-Based Women Workers
Introduction
Trade liberalisation and cross-border production networks
Working conditions of women workers under sub-contracting arrangements
Some concluding remarks
7 Japanese Women and the ‘Cult of Productivity’
Introduction
Meiji women – working ‘for the sake of the country’
New women in the workplace during the interwar period
War-time work ‘in the service of the state’
Women workers and the economic miracle
New opportunities versus old constraints
Conclusion
8 Women Workers and Health: Semiconductor Industry in Singapore and Malaysia
Introduction
A framework for understanding health, women’s work and development
A social and occupational epidemiological study
Conclusion: health, production and reproduction
9 Labour, Industry and the State in Industrialising Asia: An Overview
Introduction
The state, labour legislation and industrial relations
Some concluding remarks
10 Women, Labour Standards, and Labour Organisation
Introduction
The ILO and labour standards
The core labour standards social clause
Women workers and labour law in Asia
Core labour standards and enforcement in Asia
Index
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