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Women Workers in Industrialising Asia

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  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Amarjit Kaur

    1. University of New England, Australia

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Part of the book series: Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia (SEESEA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Amarjit Kaur
    Pages 1-4

  3. Framing Women Workers in Asia: Gender-Related Socio-Demographic and Developmental Indicators

    • Ian Metcalfe
    Pages 5-36

  4. Economic Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation and Labour-Intensive Export Manufactures: An Asian Perspective

    • Amarjit Kaur
    Pages 37-58

  5. Female Wage Labour in Perspective

    • Malcolm Falkus
    Pages 59-76

  6. Women, Work and Household in Industrialising Asia

    • Samita Sen
    Pages 77-98

  7. The Global Factory: Cross-Border Production Networks and Women Workers in Asia

    • Amarjit Kaur
    Pages 99-128

  8. Sub-Contracting, Small-Batch Production and Home-Based Women Workers

    • Denis Wright
    Pages 129-148

  9. Japanese Women and the ‘Cult of Productivity’

    • Elise K. Tipton
    Pages 149-172

  10. Women Workers and Health: Semiconductor Industry in Singapore and Malaysia

    • Vivian Lin
    Pages 173-194

  11. Labour, Industry and the State in Industrialising Asia: An Overview

    • Amarjit Kaur
    Pages 195-217

  12. Women, Labour Standards, and Labour Organisation

    • H. V. Brasted
    Pages 218-240

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-247
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About this book

This collection contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focussing on issues that have been little documented in other studies in the area. It provides new information and insights into labour systems associated with labour intensive export manufactures and state-labour relations in a comparative context. The contributors present a range of unique and varied perspectives from which they consider aspects of the increasing integration of Asian economies, exploring implications for their labour markets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New England, Australia

    Amarjit Kaur

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HOWARD BRASTED Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, Australia MALCOLM FALKUS Emeritus Professor, University of New England, Australia IAN METCALFE Deputy Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, Australia VIVIAN LIN Chair of Public Health and Head of the School of Public Health, Le Trobe University, Australia SAMITA SEN Reader, Department of History, Calcutta University, India ELISE K. TIPTON Lecturer in Japanese History, University of Sydney, Australia DENIS WRIGHT Senior Lecturer in History, University of New England, Australia

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