Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian EconomiesZed Books, 1997 - 401 من الصفحات 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. |
المحتوى
List of Illustrations | 8 |
Feminism and the Conceptualization of Womens Labour | 15 |
Marx | 31 |
The Proletarian Womens Movement in Germany and Womens | 52 |
The Debate | 76 |
Homebased Women Labourers in the Garment Industry | 105 |
Wage Slavery among Women Garment Workers under | 133 |
The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Housewifization | 167 |
The Ecofeminist Discourse in India | 228 |
The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Subsistence | 257 |
The Japanese Style of Management and Fordism Compared | 295 |
Japanese Women as a Vast Reserve Army of Labour | 322 |
Figures | 326 |
Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Asia | 352 |
Glossary | 371 |
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