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The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best available summary of this crucial process as it took hold at the very end of the twentieth century. This new edition brings the discussion up to 2011 with an extensive introduction by world-famous economist Jayati Ghosh of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. Drawing on extensive data concerning the laboring conditions of women workers and peasant women, this ambitious book provides a theoretical interpretation of the rapidly changing economic conditions in the contemporary global economy and particularly in Asia, and their consequences for women. It is based on prolonged field research in India, Bangladesh, and Japan, combined with a broad comparative study of currents in international feminism. Peter Custers reasserts the relevance of Marxist concepts for understanding processes of socio-economic change in Asia and the world, but argues forcefully that these concepts need to be enlarged to include the perspective of feminist theoreticians. In the process, he assesses the theoretical relevance of several currents in international feminism, including ecofeminism, the German feminist school, and socialist feminism. With its strong theoretical framework, supported by massive amounts of evidence, this important book will interest all those involved in women's studies, social movements, economics, sociology, and social and economic theory.

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.