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Women Workers and Global Restructuring / ed. by Kathryn Ward. - 1 online resource (324 p.) : 1 table - Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports .

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- PART I. INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL WORK -- 2. LINKING WOMEN'S LABOR WITH THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: FACTORY WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN RURAL JAVA -- 3. DISGUISED INDUSTRIAL PROLETARIANS IN RURAL LATIN AMERICA: WOMEN'S INFORMAL-SECTOR FACTORY WORK AND THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF COFFEE FARM LABOR IN COLOMBIA -- 4. "FACON": WOMEN'S FORMAL AND INFORMAL WORK IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY IN KAVALA, GREECE -- PART II. THE ROLE OF THE STATE -- 5. EXPORT-LED DEVELOPMENT AND THE UNDEREMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN: THE IMPACT OF DISCRIMINATORY DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND -- 6. WOMEN'S WORK AND WOMEN'S PLACE IN THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC MIRACLE -- PART III. RESISTANCE AND AMBIVALENCE -- 7. "THEIR LOGIC AGAINST THEM": CONTRADICTIONS IN SEX, RACE, AND CLASS IN SILICON VALLEY -- 8. WOMEN AND THE EXPORT INDUSTRY IN TAIWAN: THE MUTING OF CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS -- 9. MAQUILADORA WOMEN: A NEW CATEGORY OF WORKERS? -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781501717086

Standard No.: 10.7591/9781501717086 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women offshore assembly industry workers.
Work and family.
Labor History.
Sociology & Social Science.
Womens Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.

LC Class. No.: HD6073.O33W66 1990

Dewey Class. No.: 331.4/87/091724