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Globalization of Production and Women in Asia

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  • Dong-Sook S. Gills

    (University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom)

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Globalization of production represents a new organization of production processes, accompanied by technological advances and neoliberal ideology, which emphasizes the separation of politics from economics. Emanating from these changes, labor relations are being altered, in particular by world trends of the flexibilization and feminization of labor. Women's labor constitutes a foundation of the international competitiveness of most Asian countries. The forces of economic globalization expose women in Asia to diverse mechanisms of exploitation in complex ways. There is no single pattern but rather an array of complex ways in which gender hierarchy, national capital, foreign capital, and the state negotiate and adapt to globalization. Women's social movements have been part of the social actions that have strengthened the counterhegemonic movements against capital-led economic globalization. Women's labor is an important social force that can resist neoliberal global trends and contribute to an alternative globalization based on democratization and greater social inclusion.

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  • Dong-Sook S. Gills, 2002. "Globalization of Production and Women in Asia," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 581(1), pages 106-120, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:581:y:2002:i:1:p:106-120
    DOI: 10.1177/000271620258100110
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