224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
This book sets out to understand the role of women in the gendered expansion of the global economy since the 1970s. This involves interrogating the different locations where women have worked in the productive paid economy as well as their less visible labour in the family and the care economy.
Much of the public perception, particularly in the global North has centred on women’s work in the... Read more
1. A Hundred Years of Feminisation of Global Labour 2. Women’s Employment in Global Value Chains in the Manufacturing and Agricultural Sectors 3. Women’s Employment in New Global Sectors: Call Centres and Care Work 4. Women, Work and Survival: Micro Credit, Micro Finance and Cash Transfers 5. Economic Justice: Migration and Citizenship for Migrant Women Workers 6. Conclusions: Prospects for Gender Equitable Justice in the Twenty First Century
Biography
Ruth Pearson is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
