Description
This collection contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focussing on issues that have been little documented in other studies in the area. It provides new information and insights into labour systems associated with labour intensive export manufactures and state-labour relations in a comparative context. The contributors present a range of unique and varied perspectives from which they consider aspects of the increasing integration of Asian economies, exploring implications for their labour markets. HOWARD BRASTED Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, Australia MALCOLM FALKUS Emeritus Professor, University of New England, Australia IAN METCALFE Deputy Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, Australia VIVIAN LIN Chair of Public Health and Head of the School of Public Health, Le Trobe University, Australia SAMITA SEN Reader, Department of History, Calcutta University, India ELISE K. TIPTON Lecturer in Japanese History, University of Sydney, Australia DENIS WRIGHT Senior Lecturer in History, University of New England, Australia Introduction; A.Kaur Framing Women Workers: Gender-Related Socio-Demographic and Economic Indicatorsin Asia; I.Metcalfe Economic Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation and Labour-intesive Export Manufactures: An Asian Perspective; A.Kaur Female Wage Labour in Perspective; M.Falkus Women, Work and Household in Industrialising Asia; S.Sen The Global Factory: Cross-Border Production Networks and Women Workers in Asia; A.Kaur Sub-Contracting, Small-Batch Production and Home-based Women Workers; D.Wright Japanese Women and the ‘Cult of Productivity’; E.K.Tipton Women Workers and Health: Semi-Conductor Industry in Singapore and Malaysia; V.Lin Labour, Industry and the State in Industrialising Asia: An Owerview; A.Kaur Women, Labour Standards and Industrial Organisation; H.Brasted
