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Women Workers and Global Restructuring

Author : Kathryn B. Ward
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875461625
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Women Workers and Global Restructuring written by Kathryn B. Ward and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since economists traditionally focus on market activities, women's non-wage labour has not been registered in works on economic development. On the other hand, women's wage labour has been described as supplementary or marginal to the household income as well as to economic development as a whole. The contributors to this collection did their research on women workers in countries from the core, the semiperiphery, and the periphery. The eight articles are introduced by Kathryn Ward, who presents a critical overview of the literature on women workers and globalization. In Ward's opinion we have to develop new definitions for some key concepts in our theories on women and work. These concepts should aim at including housework and work in the informal sector, and women's various acts of resistance. Ward also suggests new perspectives from which we should theorize about women's work in the process of global restructuring.

Gendered Paradoxes

Author : Amy Lind
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076364
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Paradoxes written by Amy Lind and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and “unfinished” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist “issue networks” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.

Women, Work, and Place

Author : Audrey Lynn Kobayashi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077351225X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Women, Work, and Place written by Audrey Lynn Kobayashi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises nine essays on the impact of age, ethnic origin, social class, cultural and other experiential factors on the role of women as social agents in the late 19th and 20th century.

A Companion to Economic Geography

Author : Eric Sheppard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470692723
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Economic Geography written by Eric Sheppard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field. Places economic geography in the wider context of geography. Contributions from leading international scholars in the field. Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field. Explores key debates, controversies and questions using a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points. Charts the important work that has been done in recent years and looks forward to new developments in the global economy.

Women's Work and Chicano Families

Author : Patricia Zavella
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720066
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Women's Work and Chicano Families written by Patricia Zavella and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley was published, little research had been done on the relationship between the wage labor and household labor of Mexican American women. Drawing on revisionist social theories relating to Chicano family structure as well as on feminist theory, Patricia Zavella paints a compelling picture of the Chicano women who worked in northern California’s fruit and vegetable canneries. Her book combines social history, shop floor ethnography, and in-depth interviews to explore the links between Chicano family life and gender inequality in the labor market.

Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras

Author : Altha J. Cravey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847688869
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras written by Altha J. Cravey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of global assembly plants is closely linked to the creation of a global female industrial labor force. Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras examines this larger process in Mexico, where--despite a century of industrialization and a tradition of well-paid, highly organized, male workers--the maquiladora factories have turned to predominantly female labor. Exploring this dramatic shift, this book convincingly demonstrates how gender restructuring in workplaces and households has become a crucial element in the reorientation of Mexican development. The author compares Mexico's new industrial system with its historical antecedent and documents federal policy changes that have resulted in distinct patterns of gender, unionization, household form, and social welfare. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book uses the voices of workers themselves to provide an intimate look at how daily lives have been transformed--in ways that could not have been foreseen--by the national and international processes shaping the country's industrial transition.

Feminist Geographies

Author : Women and Geography Study Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317891384
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Geographies written by Women and Geography Study Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the study of human geography has been reshaped by the work of feminist geographers, and as a result a considerable number of universities now include feminist geography and gender issues in their courses. This text provides an introduction to contemporary debates in feminist geography. These explorations in diversity and difference make up feminist geography in the 1990s. Feminist Geographies introduces key analytical concepts, examines the history of the subdiscipline, explores feminist geographers' methodologies and considers the various ways in which feminist geographers have worked with some of geography's key concepts; notably space, place, landscape and environment. The text also goes on to outline areas of future debates within the subject.

New Poverty Studies

Author : Judith G. Goode
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814731155
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book New Poverty Studies written by Judith G. Goode and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of power produce poverty and affect the material well-being, social relations and politicization of the poor. In updating the 1960s encounter between ethnography and U.S. poverty, The New Poverty Studies highlights the ways poverty is constructed across multiple scales and multiple axes of difference. Questioning the common wisdom that poverty persists because of the pathology, social isolation and welfare state "dependency" of the poor, the contributors to The New Poverty Studies point instead to economic restructuring and neoliberal policy "reforms" which have caused increased social inequality and economic polarization in the U.S. Contributors include: Georges Fouron, Donna Goldstein, Judith Goode, Susan B. Hyatt, Catherine Kingfisher, Peter Kwong, Vin Lyon-Callo, Jeff Maskovsky, Sandi Morgen, Leith Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Matthew Rubin, Nina Glick Schiller, Carol Stack, Jill Weigt, Eve Weinbaum, Brett Williams, and Patricia Zavella. "These contributions provide a dynamic understanding of poverty and immiseration" —North American Dialogue, Vol. 4, No. 1, Nov. 2001

Sunshine Was Never Enough

Author : John H. M. Laslett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520282191
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Sunshine Was Never Enough written by John H. M. Laslett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving beneath Southern California’s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles’s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a century of labor history, John H. M. Laslett acknowledges the advantages Southern California’s climate, open spaces, and bucolic character offered to generations of newcomers. At the same time, he demonstrates that—in terms of wages, hours, and conditions of work—L.A. differed very little from America’s other industrial cities. Both fast-paced and sophisticated, Sunshine Was Never Enough shows how labor in all its guises—blue and white collar, industrial, agricultural, and high tech—shaped the neighborhoods, economic policies, racial attitudes, and class perceptions of the City of Angels. Laslett explains how, until the 1930s, many of L.A.’s workers were under the thumb of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. This conservative organization kept wages low, suppressed trade unions, and made L.A. into the open shop capital of America. By contrast now, at a time when the AFL-CIO is at its lowest ebb—a young generation of Mexican and African American organizers has infused the L.A. movement with renewed strength. These stories of the men and women who pumped oil, loaded ships in San Pedro harbor, built movie sets, assembled aircraft, and in more recent times cleaned hotels and washed cars is a little-known but vital part of Los Angeles history.

Towards a Political Economy of Resource-dependent Regions

Author : Greg Halseth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351846450
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Towards a Political Economy of Resource-dependent Regions written by Greg Halseth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances our understanding of resource-dependent regions in developed economies in the 21st Century. It explores how rural and small town places are working to find success in a new economy marked by demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental change. How are we to understand the changes and transformations working through communities and economies? Where are the trajectories of change leading these resource-dependent places and regions? Drawing upon examples from Canada, USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordic countries, these and other questions are explored and addressed by constructing a critical political economy framework of resource hinterland transition. Towards a Political Economy of Resource Dependent Regions is a key resource for students and researchers in geography, rural and industrial sociology, economics, environmental studies, political science, regional studies, and planning, as well as policy-makers, those in industry and the private sector, and local and regional development practitioners.

Sweaters

Author : Fiona M Wilson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349215929
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Sweaters written by Fiona M Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-10-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resources in Education

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Local Dynamics of Industrial Upgrading

Author : Yi Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981154297X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Local Dynamics of Industrial Upgrading written by Yi Liu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines industrial upgrading in China’s Pearl River Delta (PRD), with a specific focus on how strategic coupling impacts industrial upgrading from the perspective of relational economic geography. It shows that firms in the PRD have been struggling after serving as low-tier suppliers and subcontractors for transnational corporations for two decades, since the 1980s opening reform in China. Indigenous innovation and direct state support have fostered the success of a few firms, but not the majority. In response, many local firms are now taking advantage of the opportunities to be found in global production networks, which link the PRD with the global economy. This book elaborates on how these opportunities are embedded and identified in global production networks with regard to different types of strategic coupling. It not only renews the theory of strategic coupling in economic geography, but also demonstrates potential strategies that latecomer firms can pursue, and which can have major implications for many developing countries and regions.

Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union

Author : Teresa Rees
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134820933
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union written by Teresa Rees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluation of the potential role of the EU in perpetuating or breaking down gender segregation in the EU labour force. Teresa Rees draws upon feminist theoretical frameworks in assessing Equal Opportunitues policies and the role of training in the labour market. The same economic imperatives which put women's training on the agenda have heightened interest in designing training which attracts women into mainstream provision. Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union addresses the urgent need for academics, education and training providers, as well as policy makers to be aware of current thinking at EU level on training policy.

Gender, Work and Space

Author : Susan Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134857616
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Work and Space written by Susan Hanson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how social boundaries are constructed between men and women in the work place and how these differences are grounded, constituted in and through, space, place and situated social networks.

Space, Place and Gender

Author : Doreen Massey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745677746
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Space, Place and Gender written by Doreen Massey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on threeareas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the authorreflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her currentposition on these important issues. The book is organized around the three themes of space, placeand gender. It traces the development of ideas about the socialnature of space and place and the relation of both to issues ofgender and debates within feminism. It is debates in these areaswhich have been crucial in bringing geography to the centre ofsocial sciences thinking in recent years, and this book includeswritings that have been fundamental to that process. Beginning withthe economy and social structures of production, it develops awider notion of spatiality as the product of intersecting socialrelations. In turn this has lead to conceptions of 'place' asessentially open and hybrid, always provisional and contested.These themes intersect with much current thinking about identitywithin both feminism and cultural studies. Each of the themes is preceded by a section which reflects onthe development of ideas and sets out the context of theirproduction. The introduction assesses the current state of play andargues for the close relationship of new thinking on each of thesethemes. This book will be of interest to students in geography,social theory, women's studies and cultural studies.

Theorizing Black Feminisms

Author : Abena P. A. Busia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134906676
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Black Feminisms written by Abena P. A. Busia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong collection of essays in a field hungry for texts Provides theoretical basis for a developing subject International - authors from US, Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria Deals with important current issues - AIDS in Africa and the US; reproductive rights; the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas controversy Four colour cover