The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia: An Introduction

   1. The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia: An Introduction

      • Juanita Elias, Samanthi J. Gunawardana

      Pages 1-12

3. The State and the Household Economy: Competitiveness, Development and Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Women Hold Up the Anti-Welfare Regime: How Social Policies Produce Social Differentiation in Singapore

      • Youyenn Teo

      Pages 15-27

   3. The State and the Foreign Relations of Households: The Malaysia-Indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute

      • Juanita Elias

      Pages 28-42

   4. Armed Resistance, Economic (In)Security and the Household: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurgency in India

      • Swati Parashar

      Pages 43-58

   5. Rural Sinhalese Women, Nationalism and Narratives of Development in Sri Lanka’s Post-War Political Economy

      • Samanthi J. Gunawardana

      Pages 59-74

4. The Household as a Site of Socioeconomic Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: ‘Frontier’ Women in Indian Cities

      • Duncan McDuie Ra

      Pages 77-93

   3. Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Women’s Marriage Migration to South Korea

      • Hyunok Lee

      Pages 94-109

   4. Single Women and Their Households in Contemporary Japan

      • Laura Dales

      Pages 110-126

   5. ‘Because We Have Husbands with Full-Time Jobs …’: The State, The Household and Home Care Work in Japan

      • Kaye Broadbent

      Pages 127-141

5. The Household and the Gendered Workplace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. It’s the (Household) Economy, Stupid! Pension Reform, Collective Resistance and the Reproductive Sphere in Sri Lanka

      • Kanchana N. Ruwanpura

      Pages 145-161

   3. Vietnamese Migrant Clothing Workers in Malaysia: global Production, Transnational Labour Migration and Social Reproduction

      • Vicki Crinis

      Pages 162-177

   4. Work, Employment and Welfare of Chinese Rural Women: The Impact of Household Structure and Implications for Social Policy

      • Fang Lee Cooke

      Pages 178-193

   5. Extreme Jobs and the Household: Work and Care in the New India

      • Elizabeth Hill

      Pages 194-210

   6. Waste Recycling and the Household Economy: The Case of the Pune Waste-Pickers’ Response to the Changing ‘Rules of the Game’

      • Patrick Kilby

      Pages 211-226

   7. Conclusion: The Significance of the Household to Asia’s Transformation and to Studies of the Global Political Economy

      • Samanthi J. Gunawardana, Juanita Elias

      Pages 227-231

6. Back Matter

   Pages 232-270

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The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy. While there is an emergent literature that looks at this relationship, to date, it is fragmented. The contributors consider how the household economy has increasingly been incorporated into development planning and policy making within both states and multilateral development agencies. They examine the social consequences of the tendency to view households as marketizable spaces, and explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region. With case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, they provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household economy to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region.

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• University of Warwick, UK

  Juanita Elias

• School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  Samanthi J. Gunawardana

Kaye Broadbent, Griffith University, Australia Vicki Crinis, University of Wollongong, Australia Laura Dales, University of Western Australia, Australia Juanita Elias, University of Warwick, UK Samanthi J Gunawardana, Griffith University, Australia Patrick Kilby, Australian National University, Australia Hyunok Lee, National University of Singapore Fang Lee Cooke, Monash University, Australia Swati Parashar, Monash University, Australia Youyenn Teo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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