| Description |
xii, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Esther Ngan-ling Chow -- Pt. I. EnGendering East Asian Development -- Ch. 1. Globalization, East Asian Development, and Gender: A Historical Overview / Esther Ngan-ling Chow -- Ch. 2. Studying Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks / Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. Lyter -- Pt. II. The Process of Industrialization: Institutional Embeddedness, Control, and Resistance -- Ch. 3. Women and Work in East Asia / Yin-wah Chu -- Ch. 4. Gendered Organizations, Embodiment, and Employment among Manufacturing Workers in Taiwan / Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-may Hsung -- Ch. 5. Power, Media Representation, and Labor Dispute: The Case of Women Workers in South Korea / Hyun Mee Kim -- Pt. III. The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Employment and Family -- Ch. 6. Women's Unemployment, Re-employment, and Self-employment in China's Economic Restructuring / Ting Gong -- Ch. 7. State Women Workers in Chinese Economic Reform: The Transformation of Management Control and Firm Dependence / Ping Ping -- Ch. 8. Gender Embeddedness of Family Strategies: Hong Kong Working-Class Families during Economic Restructuring / Vivien Hiu-tung Leung -- Pt. IV. Migration, Household, and Gender Strategies -- Ch. 9. Guests from the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan / Anru Lee -- Ch. 10. Fleeing Poverty: Rural Women, Expanding Marriage Markets, and Strategies for Social Mobility in Contemporary China / Christina Gilmartin and Lin Tan -- Ch. 11. Women's Work in International Migration / Janet W. Salaff |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women in development -- East Asia.
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Sex role -- Economic aspects -- East Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
Far East -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040528
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| Author |
Chow, Esther Ngan-ling, 1943-
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| LC no. |
2001057862 |
| ISBN |
041592491X |
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0415924928 paperback |
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