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Global Women's Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)

Global Women's Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy (Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics)

by Beth English (Editor), Mary E. Frederickson (Author), Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama (Author)

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Synopsis

This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through labour, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women's labour force participation and workplace activism.


The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women's agency within the context of changing economic options; and women's negotiations and re-negotiations of unpaid social reproductive labour. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 422
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 22 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1138036595
ISBN 13: 9781138036598

Media Reviews

This compelling collection explores how social provisioning processes have been affected by changes in the political economy following global financial crisis, especially tensions between the feminization of labor under neoliberalism and socially conservative authoritarian nationalism. Engrossing accounts of women's collective agency in negotiating this new terrain will be relevant for scholars and students across many disciplines.


- Ellen Mutari, Professor of Economics, Stockton University, USA

Fascinating economic perspectives on 16 developed and developing countries [...] I find particularly important the evidence of a reinvigorated alliance between conservative traditionalism regarding the family and marginalisation of women in the economy, in countries as diverse as the US, Russia and Iran.

- Frances Raday, President, Concord Research Center for Integration of International Law in Israel, The Haim Striks School of Law, COLMAN; Special Rapporteur, UN Human Rights Council, Expert Group on Discrimination against Women

Author Bio
Beth English is a research associate and Director of the Project on Women in the Global Community at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Mary E. Frederickson is currently Visiting Professor at Emory University, where she has appointments in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she taught from 1988-2015. Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati.