Intro -- Women and Work in Globalising Asia -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Neoliberal Economic Globalisation and Women in Asia:Introduction -- 1 Globalisation and Counter-Globalisation -- 2 Risutora and women in the Japanese Labour Force -- 3 Global Capital and Local Patriarchy: the Financial Crisis and Women Workers in South Korea -- 4 The economic reform and feminisation of labour in agriculture: the case of rural village women in India -- 5 Responses to changing labour relations: the case of women's NGOs in Indonesia -- 6 Facing a new revolution in Vietnam: state textile workers in the post-reform economy -- 7 Working for global factories: Thai women in electronics export companies in the Northern Regional Industrial Estate -- 8 The stratification of the garment and textile industries and labour movements in Malaysia -- 9 Adjusting to urban capital: rural female labour in state cotton mills in China -- 10 Global labour markets and national responses: legal regimes governing female migrant workers in Japan -- 11 Asian women immigrants in the US fashion garment industry -- Index.

This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and also includes an analysis of Asian immigrants working in the US. This book is an invaluable resource, accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of women's studies, labour relations, international political economy and Asian studies.

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