Gendered commodity chains : seeing women's work and households in global production / edited by Wilma A. Dunaway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunaway, Wilma A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment.

Women.

Women--Economic conditions.

Households--Economic aspects.

Households.

Sex role--Economic aspects.

Sex role.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site of production. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this cutting-edge volume fills an important gender gap in the field of global commodity and value chain analysis. With thirteen chapters by an international group of scholars from sociology, anthropology, economics, women's studies, and geography, this volume begins with an eye-opening feminist critique of existing commodity chain literature. Throughout its remaining five parts, Gendered Commodity Chains addresses ways women's work can be integrated into commodity chain research, the forms women's labor takes, threats to social reproduction, the impact of indigenous and peasant households on commodity chains, the rapidly expanding arenas of global carework and sex trafficking, and finally, opportunities for worker resistance. This broadly interdisciplinary volume provides conceptual and methodological guides for academics, graduate students, researchers, and activists interested in the gendered nature of commodity chains.

Contents:

A feminist approach to overcoming the closed boxes of the commodity chain / Jane Collins

Feminist commodity chain analysis : a framework to conceptualize value and interpret perplexity / Priti Ramamurthy

Through the portal of the household : conceptualizing women's subsidies to commodity chains / Wilma A. Dunaway

Unpaid labor as dark value in global commodity chains / Donald A. Clelland

In chains at the bottom of the pyramid : informal economy, gender and sweated labor in global apparel production / Robert J. S. Ross

Patriarchy reconsolidated : women's work in three global commodity chains of Turkey's garment industry / Saniye Dedeoglu

Chilean temporeras and corporate construction of gender inequalities in global food standards / Carmen Bain

Informal provisioning chains versus commodity chains : marketing of indigenous poverty and culture as threats to households and women / Kathleen Pickering Sherman and Andrea Akers

Commodity chained fishing households : peasant subsidization of exports in a Philippine seafood extractive enclave / Maria Cecilia Ferolin

Global care chains : bringing in transnational reproductive laborer households / Nicola Yeates

The international division of reproductive labor and sex trafficking commodity chains / Nadia Shapkina

Decomposition of industrial commodity chains, household semiproletarianization and arenas for resistance at the center / Dave Broad

Bringing resistance to the conceptual center : threats to social reproduction and feminist activism in Nicaraguan commodity chains / Marina Prieto-Carron.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804788960

0804788960

OCLC:

869775325