ABSTRACT
This book argues that globalization is a real, but not an immutable, force which is producing profound changes in national models of capitalism and national socio-economic institutions, and is affecting men and women within these national models in different ways. I shall put forward an analysis of the relationship between gender and globalization using women workers in Japan as a case study. Japan was chosen because its distinctive model of capitalism is being transformed by the processes associated with globalization. As men and women have had very different positions within that model, this transformation is having different impacts upon male and female workers.
