Women Workers and Global Restructuring
- ISBN-10
- 087546162X
- ISBN-13
- 9780875461625
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Kathryn B. Ward
Description
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.
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