The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia: An Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Women Hold Up the Anti-Welfare Regime: How Social Policies Produce Social Differentiation in Singapore....Pages 15-27
The State and the Foreign Relations of Households: The Malaysia-Indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute....Pages 28-42
Armed Resistance, Economic (In)Security and the Household: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurgency in India....Pages 43-58
Rural Sinhalese Women, Nationalism and Narratives of Development in Sri Lanka’s Post-War Political Economy....Pages 59-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: ‘Frontier’ Women in Indian Cities....Pages 77-93
Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Women’s Marriage Migration to South Korea....Pages 94-109
Single Women and Their Households in Contemporary Japan....Pages 110-126
‘Because We Have Husbands with Full-Time Jobs …’: The State, The Household and Home Care Work in Japan....Pages 127-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
It’s the (Household) Economy, Stupid! Pension Reform, Collective Resistance and the Reproductive Sphere in Sri Lanka....Pages 145-161
Vietnamese Migrant Clothing Workers in Malaysia: global Production, Transnational Labour Migration and Social Reproduction....Pages 162-177
Work, Employment and Welfare of Chinese Rural Women: The Impact of Household Structure and Implications for Social Policy....Pages 178-193
Extreme Jobs and the Household: Work and Care in the New India....Pages 194-210
Waste Recycling and the Household Economy: The Case of the Pune Waste-Pickers’ Response to the Changing ‘Rules of the Game’....Pages 211-226
Conclusion: The Significance of the Household to Asia’s Transformation and to Studies of the Global Political Economy....Pages 227-231
Back Matter....Pages 232-270