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• catalog abstract ""Demonstrating exactly how women, all over the world, have become the call-girls of the global labour market, the author of this book uses a mixture of case studies, examples and quotations to illustrate some hard facts. She looks at women across the world - to show how their lives have been turned upside down by industrialization in the South and a return to homeworking in the North. We meet Martha, 17-year old mother of two in Harlem, who cannot afford medical provision on the salary she has been forced to accept; Margaret, former secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture in Nairobi, now trading in second-hand clothes; Li Thi, a Vietnamese woman who is paid $500 a year for stitching the same running shoes that a top US basketball player is paid $20 million a year to promote." "From New York to Phnom Penh, from Moscow to Dakar, we see the devastating effects of the unfettered power of transnational corporations on women's lives. This book charts that devastation and calls for urgent action - by states across the world and by women themselves."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Globalisierte Frau. English".
• catalog contributor b11518340.
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description ""Demonstrating exactly how women, all over the world, have become the call-girls of the global labour market, the author of this book uses a mixture of case studies, examples and quotations to illustrate some hard facts. She looks at women across the world - to show how their lives have been turned upside down by industrialization in the South and a return to homeworking in the North. We meet Martha, 17-year old mother of two in Harlem, who cannot afford medical provision on the salary she has been forced to accept; Margaret, former secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture in Nairobi, now trading in second-hand clothes; Li Thi, a Vietnamese woman who is paid $500 a year for stitching the same running shoes that a top US basketball player is paid $20 million a year to promote." "From New York to Phnom Penh, from Moscow to Dakar, we see the devastating effects of the unfettered power of transnational corporations on women's lives. This book charts that devastation and calls for urgent action - by states across the world and by women themselves."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-172) and index.".
• catalog description "The Global Conveyor-belt -- Women as a comparative advantage -- Yesterday Upper Lusatia, today Bangladesh, tomorrow China -- Not every Eden is Paradise -- Trampling people down--just do it -- Hollow firms, quota hopping and 'swallow' companies -- The Third World in the First -- Pushing emancipation or forced labour? -- Global counterforce--or globalization from below -- Worldwide Service -- Postindustrial work -- Women fending for themselves -- The global office -- Isle of the blessed -- Towards the self-service society -- The international army of cleaners -- Body markets -- Means of Living -- Land for men, work for women -- Proteins for the wellfed -- Hunger and trade -- Fast food, junk food, novelty food--or the lost power of the cook -- Whose seed is it? -- A step further: the human cell economy -- The Sweeper Women of Structural Adjustment, or the Feminization of Social Security -- Unpayable labour -- Honour where honour is due -- The social state discharges its children -- Farewell to Arab socialism -- Adjusting to adjustment -- The acrobatics of survival -- Matrioshki of the transformation -- Winner takes all, or the splitting of society -- Variants of Modernity -- Consumption as global culture -- Decadence and independence -- Looking west, turning east -- Identity politics -- Globalization of the Women's Movements -- Movements and networks -- Alliance for the right to a few square metres of housing -- The new international women's politics -- Countering powerlessness -- Globalized woman.".
• catalog extent "x, 180 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Globalized woman.".
• catalog identifier "1856497402 (hc.)".
• catalog identifier "1856497410 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Globalized woman.".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng ger".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press ; London ; New York : Zed Books,".
• catalog relation "Globalized woman.".
• catalog subject "331.4 21".
• catalog subject "Competition, International.".
• catalog subject "HD6053 .W44713 2000".
• catalog subject "International division of labor.".
• catalog subject "Labor market.".
• catalog subject "Unemployed women workers.".
• catalog subject "Women Employment.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Global Conveyor-belt -- Women as a comparative advantage -- Yesterday Upper Lusatia, today Bangladesh, tomorrow China -- Not every Eden is Paradise -- Trampling people down--just do it -- Hollow firms, quota hopping and 'swallow' companies -- The Third World in the First -- Pushing emancipation or forced labour? -- Global counterforce--or globalization from below -- Worldwide Service -- Postindustrial work -- Women fending for themselves -- The global office -- Isle of the blessed -- Towards the self-service society -- The international army of cleaners -- Body markets -- Means of Living -- Land for men, work for women -- Proteins for the wellfed -- Hunger and trade -- Fast food, junk food, novelty food--or the lost power of the cook -- Whose seed is it? -- A step further: the human cell economy -- The Sweeper Women of Structural Adjustment, or the Feminization of Social Security -- Unpayable labour -- Honour where honour is due -- The social state discharges its children -- Farewell to Arab socialism -- Adjusting to adjustment -- The acrobatics of survival -- Matrioshki of the transformation -- Winner takes all, or the splitting of society -- Variants of Modernity -- Consumption as global culture -- Decadence and independence -- Looking west, turning east -- Identity politics -- Globalization of the Women's Movements -- Movements and networks -- Alliance for the right to a few square metres of housing -- The new international women's politics -- Countering powerlessness -- Globalized woman.".
• catalog title "Globalisierte Frau. English".
• catalog title "The globalized woman : reports from a future of inequality / Christa Wichterich ; translated by Patrick Camiller.".
• catalog type "text".