Capital accumulation and women's labour in Asian economies / by Peter Custers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Custers, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in development--Asia.

Women in development.

Feminist economics.

Saving and investment.

Women.

Economic conditions.

Asia.

Women--Asia--Economic conditions.

Saving and investment--Asia.

Feminist economics--Asia.

Physical Description:

xxv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2012]

Summary:

The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best available summary of this crucial -process as it took hold at the very end of the twentieth century. This new edition brings the discussion up to 2011 with an extensive introduction by world-famous economist Jayati Ghosh of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Based on prolonged field research in India, Bangladesh, and Japan combined with a broad comparative study of currents in international feminism and a strong theoretical framework, this important book will interest all those involved in women's studies, social movements, economics, sociology, and social and economic theory. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Feminism and the Conceptualization of Women's Labour in Asian Economies 15

Part 1 The Discourse on Women's Labour in Historical Perspective

2 The Patriarchal Bias of Working-class Theoreticians: Marx and Proudhon 31

3 The Proletarian Women's Movement in Germany and Women's Labour 52

4 The Legacy of the Second Feminist Wave: The Debate on Household Labour Revisited 76

Part 2 The Industrial Work of Women in India and Bangladesh

5 Home-based Women Labourers in the Garment Industry in West Bengal 105

6 Wage Slavery among Women Garment Workers under the Factory System in Bangladesh 133

7 The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Housewifization 167

Part 3 Women's Role as Agricultural Producers

8 Developmental Feminism and Peasant Women's Labour in Bangladesh 201

9 The Ecofeminist Discourse in India 228

10 The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Subsistence Labour 257

Part 4 Japanization and Women's Labour

11 The Japanese Style of Management and Fordism Compared 295

12 Japanese Women as a Vast Reserve Army of Labour 322

13 Conclusion: Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Asia 352.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781583672853

1583672850

9781583672846

1583672842

OCLC:

768793092