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Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labour

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Sharon Stichter

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

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  2. Jane L. Parpart

    1. Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sharon Stichter, Jane L. Parpart
    Pages 1-9

  3. Women, Employment and the Family: Current Debates

    • Sharon Stichter
    Pages 11-71

  4. Women and Industrialisation in the Caribbean

    • Helen I. Safa
    Pages 72-97

  5. Women, the Family, and the State: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore — Newly Industrialised Countries in Asia

    • Janet W. Salaff
    Pages 98-136

  6. Female Employment and Export-led Development in Ireland: Labour Market Impact of State-reinforced Gender Inequality in the Household

    • Jean L. Pyle
    Pages 137-160

  7. Wage Earning Women and the Double Day: the Nigerian Case

    • Jane L. Parpart
    Pages 161-182

  8. Women, Work and Social Change in Algeria

    • Marnia Lazreg
    Pages 183-197

  9. Patterns of Patriarchy in the Peruvian Working Class

    • Alison MacEwen Scott
    Pages 198-220

  10. Socio-economic Determinants of the Outcomes of Women’s Income-Generation in Developing Countries

    • Constantina Safilios-Rothschild
    Pages 221-228

  11. Public Employment and Private Relations: Women and Work in India

    • Ursula Sharma
    Pages 229-246

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 247-253
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In the present stage of international capitalist development, women are increasingly being drawn into paid employment by multinational and state investment in the Third World. This volume investigates the interrelations between women's participation in the urban wage economy and their productive and reproductive roles in the household and family. It brings together a selection of important recent research on all major regions of the developing world by leading scholars in this emerging field. It argues that the household itself is an important determinant of the character and timing of women's labour force participation, and it assesses the extent to which family patterns can be expected to change as women increasingly work outside the home.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA

    Sharon Stichter

  • Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Jane L. Parpart

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