Women Workers in Industrialising Asia: Costed, Not Valued (Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Notes on Contributors......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Introduction......Page 24
Population and population growth......Page 25
Fertility......Page 30
Life expectancy......Page 32
Infant and maternal mortality......Page 34
Poverty and human development......Page 35
The concept of development and the HDI......Page 37
Education......Page 41
Labour force participation......Page 45
Some concluding remarks......Page 50
Introduction......Page 56
Economic globalisation, past and present: everything changes and nothing changes......Page 57
Trade liberalisation as development strategy and economic growth in Asia......Page 61
Conceptualising the new globalisation......Page 65
Changing contexts of women’s employment......Page 69
Production niches, labour-intensive manufactures and women workers......Page 73
Introduction......Page 78
The industrial revolution and women’s employment in historical perspective......Page 80
The factory system and changing contexts of women’s employment......Page 82
Impact of the factory system on the family economy......Page 89
Technological change and female wage employment......Page 91
Continuity and change: industrialisation and women workers......Page 92
Introduction......Page 96
Gender divisions and patterns of industrialisation: regional diversities......Page 98
Parting of ways: feminisation of labour in Southeast Asia in the 1970s......Page 101
‘Outside departments of factories’: women and home-based work......Page 103
Changing the family: marriage and home management......Page 106
Concluding remarks......Page 113
Introduction......Page 118
Trade strategies for development......Page 120
Framing the global factory......Page 126
Women factory workers: cogs on the global assembly-line......Page 134
Introduction......Page 148
Trade liberalisation and cross-border production networks......Page 149
Working conditions of women workers under sub-contracting arrangements......Page 159
Some concluding remarks......Page 164
Introduction......Page 168
Meiji women – working ‘for the sake of the country’......Page 170
New women in the workplace during the interwar period......Page 174
War-time work ‘in the service of the state’......Page 179
Women workers and the economic miracle......Page 181
New opportunities versus old constraints......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 188
Introduction......Page 192
A framework for understanding health, women’s work and development......Page 196
A social and occupational epidemiological study......Page 198
Conclusion: health, production and reproduction......Page 208
Introduction......Page 214
The state, labour legislation and industrial relations......Page 215
Some concluding remarks......Page 233
Introduction......Page 237
The ILO and labour standards......Page 239
The core labour standards social clause......Page 246
Women workers and labour law in Asia......Page 247
Core labour standards and enforcement in Asia......Page 255
Index......Page 260