Capital Accumulation and Women's Labor in Asian Economies

by Custers, Peter; Ghosh, Jayati

• ISBN13: 9781583672846
• ISBN10: 1583672842
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

Summary

The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best available summary of this crucial -process as it took hold at the very end of the twentieth century. This new edition brings the discussion up to 2011 with an extensive introduction by world-famous economist Jayati Ghosh of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Author Biography

Peter Custers is a theoretician and international campaigner. For many years he has worked to support class struggles waged by landless peasants in Bangladesh and South Asia. He is a member of IDEAs (International Development Economics Associates) and of the Euro-Memorandum Group, and the author of Questioning Globalized Militarism. Jayati Ghosh is professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
New Introduction: Women, Labour, and Capital Accumulation in Asia	p. ix
Foreword	p. 8
Acknowledgements	p. 12
Feminism and the Conceptualization of Women's Labour in Asian Economies	p. 15
The Discourse on Women's Labour in Historical Perspective
The Patriarchal Bias of Working-class Theoreticians: Marx and Proudhon	p. 31
The Proletarian Women's Movement in Germany and Women's Labour	p. 52
The Legacy of the Second Feminist Wave: The Debate on Household Labour Revisited	p. 76
The Industrial Work of Women in India and Bangladesh
Home-based Women Labourers in the Garment Industry in West Bengal	p. 105
Wage Slavery among Women Garment Workers under the Factory System in Bangladesh	p. 133
The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Housewifization	p. 167
Women's Role as Agricultural Producers
Developmental Feminism and Peasant Women's Labour in Bangladesh	p. 201
The Ecofeminist Discourse in India	p. 228
The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Subsistence Labour	p. 257
Japanization and Women's Labour
The Japanese Style of Management and Fordism Compared	p. 295
Japanese Women as a Vast Reserve Army of Labour	p. 322
Conclusion: Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Asia	p. 352
Glossary	p. 371
Bibliography	p. 374
Index	p. 396
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