Abstract
Gender relations in many newly industrializing countries are being restructured by the globalization of capital (Mitter, 1986; Nash and Fernandez-Kelly, 1983). Globalization is also restructuring employment patterns in the core economies of the West, but the gender dimensions of this restructuring are much less often discussed (Kofman and Youngs, 1996). This chapter examines two aspects of globalization and gender relations in Britain: the impact of globalization on the UK gender order; and the specific development of male/female pay relativities in London in the context of its development as a global city, a central node in the global command structure.
Research for this chapter was undertaken as part of an ESRC research grant R000221691 Life Cycles, Life Chances and Migration in London, 1971–93. I am very grateful to Joanna Brown for all her work on the data.
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Bruegel, I. (1999). Globalization, Feminization and Pay Inequalities in London and the UK. In: Gregory, J., Sales, R., Hegewisch, A. (eds) Women, Work and Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983331_5
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