4e de couv.: In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become a classic in the fields of anthropology, labor, gender and globalization studies. Based on intensive fieldwork, the book captures a moment of profound trans…
In this update of her 1997 ethnography, the author traces changes that have taken place in the service sector of Hong Kong's workforce since its reunification with mainland China in that year. Argues that though the influx of foreign domestic workers has risen dramatically and t…
"Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different parts of the world, reflecting on the flaws in the current patterns of development and arguing for political, economic, and social changes to promote equality and susta…
Using data from the 1 per cent and 2 per cent Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from the 1991 British Census, identifies several changes in the UK labour market including: a distinctive, new category of integrated occupations, employing men and women equally in highly qualifi…
Comprises 14 papers. Considers the increase in disability, the efforts towards prevention and rehabilitation, and the need to reconcile the provision of benefits with economic sustainability.
Examines changes in Canada's immigration policies and regulations since 1945, the impact these changes have on immigrant intake, and the roles post-war immigrants and their children have played in Canada's labour force.
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a comple…
Case studies of four successful leaders who are women. "Diary studies" explore how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days, gather and disperse information, structure their companies, hire, fire. Investigates how their experiences as women contribute to their leadershi…
Explores the diverse patterns of part-time work in selected countries of Europe and USA. Concludes that part-time work does equalize women's position vis--vis full time workers, nor does it leave women in part-time jobs wholly marginalized. Instead it shows that part-time jobs p…
Women's employment is one of the most widely-discussed and widely-misunderstood issues of modern society. Are women today oppressed, or do they have the best of both worlds? Do women have to go out to work to gain equality with men? Or do they already do more than their share of…
Study of woman workers in export oriented industries on the northern frontier in Mexico - based on a field study (1978-1979) in Ciudad Juarez, discusses industrial worker demographic aspects, educational level, wage differentials, working conditions, obstacles to trade unionizat…
Reviews the development and implementation of new information technologies in several clerical occupations and sectors, in order to identify its positive and negative consquences for women's employment. Considers the likely size, incidence, nature, and timing of these effects, a…
This report addresses a number of issues that have surfaced in the debates over the impact of technological change on employment. These issues include the effects of technological change on levels of employment and unemployment within the economy; on the displacement of workers …
Monograph on the dominant role of women (incl. The woman worker) in shaping the development of social work from 1860 to the present, in the UK - examines links with the general movement for women's rights, analyses typical patterns of employment for female social workers, and th…
Monograph exploring sexual economics and social roles of women in men-dominated societys - presents cross cultural analysis of cultural factors and economic factors involved in sex discrimination, the situation of married women and woman workers, developed countries and developi…
