About the Book: Capital Accumulation And Womens Labour In Asian Economies
The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North
America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being
understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work
force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that
has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient
study is the best available summary of this crucial process as it took hold at
the very end of the twentieth century. This new edition brings the discussion up
to 2011