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Title:

Women, men, and the international division of labor / edited by June Nash and María Patricia Fernández Kelly.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xv, 463 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Foreign trade and employment.
Women--Employment.
International division of labor.
Commerce extérieur et emploi.
Femmes--Travail.
Division internationale du travail.
Travailleurs.
Foreign trade and employment.
International division of labor.
Women--Employment.
Division internationale du travail.
Commerce extérieur et emploi.
Femmes--Travail.
Internationale Arbeitsteilung.
Frau.
Beruf.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Foreign trade and employment
International division of labor
Employment--Employment

Other Authors:

Editor Nash, June C., 1927-
Editor Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part 1: Global accumulation and the labor process -- The impact of the changing international division of labor on different sectors of the labor force / June Nash -- The new international division of labor and the U.S. work force: the case of the electronics industry / Robert T. Snow -- Capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy: the dilemma of third-world women workers in multinational factories / Linda Y.C. Lim -- Part 2: Production, reproduction, and the household economy -- Women, production, and reproduction in industrial capitalism: a comparison of Brazilian and U.S. factory workers / Helen I. Safa -- Household, community, national, and multinational industrial development / Neuma Aguiar -- Kitchens hit by priorities: employed working-class Jamaican women confront the IMF / Lynn Bolles -- The domestic clothing workers in the Mexican metropolis and their relation to dependent capitalism / José Antonio Alonso -- Part 3: Labor flow and capital expansion -- Labor migration and the new industrial division of labor / Saskia Sassen-Koob -- Mexican border industrialization, female labor force participation, and migration / María Patricia Fernández Kelly -- Maquiladoras: a new face of international capitalism on Mexico's northern frontier / Jorge A. Bustamante -- The formation of an ethnic group: Colombian female workers in Venezuela / Magalit Berlin -- Part 4: Case studies in electronics and textiles -- Silicon Valley's women workers: a theoretical analysis of sex-segregation in the electronics industry labor market / Susan S. Green -- Fast forward: the internationalization of Silicon Valley / Naomi Katz and David S. Kemnitzer -- The division of labor in electronics / John F. Keller -- The impact of industrialization on women: a Caribbean case / Eve E. Abraham-Van Der Mark -- The emergence of small-scale industry in a Taiwanese rural community / Hu Tai-Li -- Women textile workers in the militarization of Southeast Asia / Cynthia H. Enloe -- Global industries and Malay peasants in peninsular Malaysia / Aihwa Ong.

Series:

The SUNY series in the anthropology of work

ISBN:

0873956842
9780873956840

OCLC:

(OCoLC)907681906

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)