Research Catalog

Title

Women, employment, and the family in the international division of labour / edited by Sharon Stichter and Jane L. Parpart.

Publication

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Stichter, Sharon.
• Parpart, Jane L.

Description

xi, 253 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Comprises nine essays on recent research concerning the relationships between women's participation in the labour force and their role within the household and the family. Includes case studies from a number of developing countries.

Series Statement

Women in the political economy

Uniform Title

Women in the political economy.

Subject

• Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
• Börngen, ..
• Women > Employment
• Work and family
• Sexual division of labor
• International division of labor

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Women, employment and the family : current debates / Sharon Stichter -- Women and industrialisation in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa -- Women, the family, and the state : Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore : newly industrialised countries in Asia / Janet W. Salaff -- Female employment and export-led development in Ireland : labour market impact of state-reinforced gender inequality in the household / Jean L. Pyle -- Wage earning women and the double day : the Nigerian case / Jane L. Parpart -- Women, work and social change in Algeria / Marnia Lazreg -- Patterns of patriarchy in the Peruvian working class / Alison M. Scott -- Socio-economic determinants of the outcomes of women's income-generation in developing countries / Constantina Safilios-Rothschild.
• Public employment and private relations : women and work in India / Ursula Sharma.

ISBN

087722739X

LCCN

^^^90031797^

OCLC

• 21077625
• SCSB-12022485

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library