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Renegotiating local values : working women and foreign industry in Malaysia

Title
Renegotiating local values : working women and foreign industry in Malaysia / Merete Lie & Ragnhild Lund.
Author
Lie, Merete.
Publication
Richmond : Curzon Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
Lund, Ragnhild.
Description
xi, 173 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 22 cm
Series Statement
Studies in Asian topics ; no. 15
Uniform Title
Studies on Asian topics ; no. 15.
Subject
  • Women > Employment > Malaysia
  • Corporations, Norwegian > Malaysia > Employees
  • Women > Employment > Malaysia > Johor
  • Corporations, Norwegian > Malaysia > Johor > Employees
  • 85.65 classes of labour and labourers
  • Women > Employment
  • Arbeiterin
  • Ausländisches Unternehmen
  • Frauenarbeit
  • Werkende vrouwen
  • Buitenlandse bedrijven
  • Sociale verandering
  • Cultuurverandering
  • Malaysia > Johor
  • Malaysia
  • Norwegen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-173).
Contents
  • Map of Peninsular Malaysia -- Scope of the Study -- Gender, Welfare, and the International Division of Labour -- Key Concepts -- Gender and Change -- Meeting the Women of the Study -- Approach -- Research Problems and Analysis -- Datatypes and Methods -- In Depth Studies -- Malaysian Context -- Malaysia: History and Population -- Ethnic Divisions and Educational Policies -- Religious Traditions -- Malay Women -- Small Foreign Companies in Malaysia: Motives for Relocation of Production -- Developing Industrial Policies -- Norwegian Companies within Malaysian Industrial Policies -- Malaysian Industrial Incentives -- Ownership Structures and Connections to Local Economy -- Work Organization and Working Conditions -- Labour Laws and Trade Unions -- Scandinavian Model of Democracy at Work -- Motives for Establishment -- Factory -- First Impressions of the Factory -- Company Structure -- ^
  • Gender at the Interface: Change and Adaptations -- Malay Women in the International Division of Labour -- Company and the Local Society: Corresponding Needs -- Company and the Female Workers: A Perfect Fit? -- Company and the Local Community: Women in Between.
ISBN
  • 0700702806
  • 9780700702800
LCCN
95122964
OCLC
  • ocm30811816
  • 30811816
  • SCSB-2061742
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library