ABSTRACT
There are two ways of interrogating the relationship between capitalism and gender; the first is to analysis the growth of waged labour, particularly in the transition to industrialization that has formed the context in which capitalism has rooted itself in many economies both of the already industrialized countries of the North and in the newly industrialized countries in East Asia and elsewhere. This approach involves an understanding of the different dynamics of industrial accumulation in different time periods and locations, different industrialization strategies and the ways in which their labour forces were selected and managed. Most analyses of this type restrict their understanding of gender to a discussion of the sexual division of labour in the industrial workforce and the implications for women of exclusion and inclusion in such work.
