ABSTRACT
This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, 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 labor 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 renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|4 pages
Women’s agency
chapter 2|20 pages
Empowerment revisited
chapter 3|15 pages
Peasant women’s agency in Bolivia during the global recession
chapter 4|20 pages
Global women’s work in transition
part II|33 pages
Exploitation vs. opportunity
chapter 9|25 pages
Working poor women in Mexico facing another crisis
chapter 10|19 pages
Women’s work in Kenya’s Athi River Export Processing Zone
part III|14 pages
Negotiations of social and reproductive labor