Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies - Couverture rigide

Custers, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1856495752 ISBN 13 : 9781856495752

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

This ambitious book provides a theoretical interpretation of the rapidly changing economic conditions in contemporary Asia and their consequences for women. It is based on field research and data on the labouring conditions of women workers and peasant women in India, Bangladesh and Japan, combined with a broad comparative study of currents in international feminism. The author first locates present-day feminist debates in the context of the intellectual controversies on labour which accompanied the growth of social and women workers' movements in 19th century and early 20th century Europe. He then highlights the labour conditions in the readymade garments industry - a key sector in many Asian economies - and provides a wide-ranging overview of the processes of agrarian modernization and their impact on rural women. Finally, he offers an original interpretation of Japanisation, and uses both Marxist and feminist concepts to explain why the state has promoted the employment of middle-aged women as part-time wage labourers. Peter Custers re-asserts the relevance of Marxist concepts for understanding processes of socio-economic change, but arguers forcefully that these concepts need to be enlarged to include the perspectives of feminist theoreticians. In this process, he assesses the theoretical relevance of several currents in international feminism, including ecofeminism, the German feminist school and socialist feminism. This important book will interest all those involved in women's studies, social movements, economics, sociology and social and economic theory.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The international financial system is in a transitional phase - the world centre of capitalist accumulation will soon be East Asia with Japan at its centre. Based on original research in Asia, this book analyzes women's labour in the rapidly expanding economies of Asian societies. Peter Custers reassserts the importance of Marxist theory both analytically and politically for the understanding of Asian economies, while also critiquing Marx's patriarchal inheritance via the work of feminist thinkers such as Maria Miles and Vandana Shiva. A major contribution to contemporary debates in economics, political theory and feminism, this book is useful reading for students and academics in these areas as well as those interested in the changing global economic structure.

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Custers has taught at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. He now works as a researcher and writer and is involved in the Clean Clothes Campaign, a European network campaigning for better working conditions in the international garment industry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856495752
• ISBN 13: 9781856495752
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible