Women workers in industrialising Asia : costed, not valued / edited by Amarjit Kaur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaur, Amarjit, 1948-

Series:

Studies in the economies of East and South-East Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Asia--Case studies.

Women.

Wages--Women--Asia--Case studies.

Wages.

Women--Asia--Social conditions--Case studies.

Women in development--Asia--Case studies.

Women in development.

Industrialization--Asia--Case studies.

Industrialization.

Manufacturing industries--Asia--Employees--Case studies.

Manufacturing industries.

Globalization--Economic aspects--Asia--Case studies.

Globalization.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Employees.

Social conditions.

Wages--Women.

Women--Employment.

Asia.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Women workers in industrializing Asia

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

This collection contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focusing on issues that have been little documented in other studies of the area. It provides new information and insights into labour systems associated with labour-intensive export manufactures and state -- labour relations in a comparative context. The contributors present a range of unique and varied perspectives from which they consider aspects of the increasing integration of Asian economies, exploring implications for their labour markets. The study focuses on women's increased participation in the paid workforce in the context of rapid social and economic development that is taking place in Asia. It approaches women's work from an institutional and structural as well as an economic perspective by concentrating on a wide range of countries at different stages of development and size. The book also provides cross-national data and information on labour rights and trade union organisation among women in Asia.

Contents:

1 Framing Women Workers in Asia: Gender-Related Socio-Demographic and Developmental Indicators / Ian Metcalfe 5

Population and population growth 6

Fertility 11

Life expectancy 13

Infant and maternal mortality 15

Poverty and human development 16

Human poverty index (HPI) 18

The concept of development and the HDI 18

Gender development and empowerment indices 22

Education 22

Labour force participation 26

2 Economic Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation and Labour-Intensive Export Manufactures: An Asian Perspective / Amarjit Kaur 37

Economic globalisation, past and present: everything changes and nothing changes 38

Trade liberalisation as development strategy and economic growth in Asia 42

Conceptualising the new globalisation 46

Changing contexts of women's employment 50

Production niches, labour-intensive manufactures and women workers 54

3 Female Wage Labour in Perspective / Malcolm Falkus 59

The industrial revolution and women's employment in historical perspective 61

The factory system and changing contexts of women's employment 63

Impact of the factory system on the family economy 70

Technological change and female wage employment 72

Continuity and change: industrialisation and women workers 73

4 Women, Work and Household in Industrialising Asia / Samita Sen 77

Gender divisions and patterns of industrialisation: regional diversities 79

Parting of ways: feminisation of labour in Southeast Asia in the 1970s 82

'Outside departments of factories': women and home-based work 84

Changing the family: marriage and home management 87

5 The Global Factory: Cross-Border Production Networks and Women Workers in Asia / Amarjit Kaur 99

Trade strategies for development 101

Framing the global factory 107

Women factory workers: cogs on the global assembly-line 115

6 Sub-Contracting, Small-Batch Production and Home-Based Women Workers / Denis Wright 129

Trade liberalisation and cross-border production networks 130

Working conditions of women workers under sub-contracting arrangements 140

7 Japanese Women and the 'Cult of Productivity' / Elise K. Tipton 149

Meiji women

working 'for the sake of the country' 151

New women in the workplace during the interwar period 155

War-time work 'in the service of the state' 160

Women workers and the economic miracle 162

New opportunities versus old constraints 164

8 Women Workers and Health: Semiconductor Industry in Singapore and Malaysia / Vivian Lin 173

A framework for understanding health, women's work and development 177

A social and occupational epidemiological study 179

Conclusion: health, production and reproduction 189

9 Labour, Industry and the State in Industrialising Asia: An Overview / Amarjit Kaur 195

The state, labour legislation and industrial relations 196

10 Women, Labour Standards, and Labour Organisation / H. V. Brasted 218

The ILO and labour standards 220

The core labour standards social clause 227

Women workers and labour law in Asia 228

Core labour standards and enforcement in Asia 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333962931

OCLC:

52216190

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