Capital accumulation and womens labour in Asian economies

Contents:
Foreword.
1. Feminism and the conceptualization of women s labour in Asian economies.
I. The discourse on women s labour in historical perspective:
2. The patriarchal bias of working class theoreticians: Marx and proudhon.
3. The proletarian women s movement in Germany and women s labour.
4. The legacy of the second feminist wave the debate on household labour revisited.
II. The industrial work of women in India and Bangladesh:
5. Home-based women labourers in the garment industry in West Bengal.
6. Wage slavery among women garment workers under the factory system in Bangladesh.
7. The German feminist school and the thesis of housewifization
III. Women s role as agricultural producers:
8. Developmental feminism and peasant women s labour in Bangaldesh.
9. The ecofeminist discourse in India.
10. The German feminist school and the Thesis of subsistence labour.
IV. Japanization and women s labour:
11. The Japanese style of management and fordism compared.
12. Japanese women as a vast reserve Army of Labour.
13. Conclusion: capital accumulation in contemporary Asia.
Glossary.
Bibliography. Index
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.