Gender and globalisation: labour changes in the global economy

Title:

Gender and globalisation: labour changes in the global economy

Creator:

Kolářová, Marta

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:a0df1532-1b12-4bb5-9f17-c7c68a0c3425
uuid:a0df1532-1b12-4bb5-9f17-c7c68a0c3425
urnnbn:urn:nbn:cz:aba007-000hia

Subject:

gender, globalisation, production, domestic work, and migration

Type:

model:internalpart and TEXT

Format:

print

Description:

The article focuses on gender aspects of globalisation and global restructuring and criticises the masculine bias of mainstream theories of globalisation. It is aimed at adding a global dimension to Czech gender studies. It looks at the way in which globalisation is gendered and based on gender ideologies, and how global restructuring affects and change gender systems. Primarily economic globalisation is addressed, and the changes in the organisation of labour globally are examined. Global production is dependent on cheap women's labour in the factories of multi-national corporations in the global south. The process of rendering labour more flexible and informal is associated with its féminisation. Care work and migration are also becoming feminised on a global scale. The article also analyses domestic work performed in the United States and Western Europe by women migrants from developing countries. All these processes are occurring within the context of neo-liberal policies and the changing role of states amidst a global restructuring, which needs to be examined from a gender perspective.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1241-1257 and 139-155

Source:

Sociologický časopis | 2006 Volume:42 | Number:6

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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