Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women’s Work and Households in Global Production

Contents......Page 6
Tables and Figures......Page 10
Foreword - Immanuel Wallerstein......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
Contributors......Page 20
Introduction - Wilma A. Dunaway......Page 26
Part I. Feminist Critiques and Advances of Commodity Chain Analysis......Page 50
Chapter One. A Feminist Approach to Overcoming the Closed Boxes of the Commodity Chain - Jane Collins......Page 52
Chapter Two. Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis: A Framework to Conceptualize Value and Interpret Perplexity - Priti Ramamurthy......Page 63
Part II. Conceptualizing Semiproletarianized Households and Workers in Commodity Chains......Page 78
Chapter Three. Through the Portal of the Household: Conceptualizing Women’s Subsidies to Commodity Chains - Wilma A. Dunaway......Page 80
Chapter Four. Unpaid Labor as Dark Value in Global Commodity Chains - Donald A. Clelland......Page 97
Part III. Women’s Labor and Threats to Social Reproduction in Global Commodity Chains......Page 114
Chapter Five. In Chains at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Gender, The Informal Economy, and Sweated Labor in Global Apparel Production - Robert J. S. Ross......Page 116
Chapter Six. Patriarchy Reconsolidated: Women’s Work in Three Global Commodity Chains of Turkey’s Garment Industry - Saniye Dedeoglu......Page 130
Chapter Seven. Chilean Temporeras and Corporate Construction of Gender Inequalities in Global Food Standards - Carmen Bain......Page 144
Part IV. Integration of Indigenous and Peasant Households into Global Commodity Chains......Page 160
Chapter Eight. Informal Provisioning Chains versus Commodity Chains: Marketing of Indigenous Poverty and Culture as Threats to Households and Women - Kathleen Pickering Sherman and Andrea Akers......Page 162
Chapter Nine. Commodity-Chained Fishing Households: Peasant Subsidization of Exports in a Philippine Seafood-Extractive Enclave - Maria Cecilia Ferolin......Page 181
Part V. Transnational Laborers as Commodities in Global Chains......Page 198
Chapter Ten. Global Care Chains: Bringing in Transnational Reproductive Laborer Households - Nicola Yeates......Page 200
Chapter Eleven. The International Division of Reproductive Labor and Sex-Trafficking Commodity Chains - Nadia Shapkina......Page 215
Part VI. Conceptualizing Social Reproduction and Worker Resistance in Commodity Chains......Page 232
Chapter Twelve. Decomposition of Industrial Commodity Chains, Household Semiproletarianization, and Arenas for Resistance at the Center - Dave Broad......Page 234
Chapter Thirteen. Bringing Resistance to the Conceptual Center: Threats to Social Reproduction and Feminist Activism in Nicaraguan Commodity Chains - Marina Prieto-Carrón......Page 250
Notes......Page 264
Bibliography......Page 272
Index......Page 304