Overview
- Editors:
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Shahra Razavi
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UNRISD, Switzerland
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Ruth Pearson
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University of Leeds, UK
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Caroline Danloy
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UNRISD, Switzerland
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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- Shahra Razavi, Ruth Pearson
Pages 1-29
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- Hyoung Cho, Ann Zammit, Jinjoo Chung, Insoon Kang
Pages 30-66
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- Viviane Brachet-Márquez, Orlandina de Oliveira
Pages 126-158
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Back Matter
Pages 229-242
About this book
Gender and development theory and analysis is replete with implicit assumptions that women's entry into the world of paid work will positively affect their status both in the household and in the public sphere. Until recently the debate on global factories and export production has remained focused on women's individual experience of export employment- and the extent to which this represents a positive opportunity or gross exploitation. In spite of the extended discussion of rights and citizenship in the global economy, little attention has hitherto been paid to the implications for women's entitlements arising out of their pivotal role in export sectors. Whilst many assume that women's visible and crucial presence in key economic sectors will be reflected in the ways in which social policies are formulated, there has been up to now little empirical and analytical engagement with this question. This volume, bringing together detailed commissioned studies from six developing countries, aims to fill this gap.
About the editors
VIVIANE BRACHET-MARQUEZ Centro des Estudios Sociolólogicos, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
SHEILA BUNWAREE Department of Sociology, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
HYOUNG CHO Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, Sudaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea
JINJOO CHUNG Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Kuri, Kyunggido, Korea
DELIA DARVIN Head of Department, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK
JAYATI GHOSH Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
GILLIAN HART Department of Geography, Chair, Center for African Studies, University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco, USA
IN-SOON KANG Division of Social Science, University of Kyungnam, Masan-City, Kyungsangnamdo, Korea
ORLANDINA DE OLIVEIRA Centro des Estudios Sociolólogicos, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
ANN ZAMMIT Independent Consultant, Geneva, Switzerland
