Capital accumulation and women's labour in Asian economics/
Peter Custers
- London: Zed Books, 1997.
- 401 p.
Feminism and the conceptualization of women's labour in Asian economies. Part 1 The discourse on women's labour in historical perspective: the patriarchal bias of working class theoreticians -- Marx and Proudhon; the proletarian women's movement in Germany and women's labour; the legacy of the second feminist wave -- the debate on household labour revisited . Part 2 The industrial work of women in India and Bangladesh: home-based women labourers in the garment industry in West Bengal; wage slavery among women garment workers in the factory system in Bangladesh; the German feminist school and the thesis of housewifization . Part 3 Women's role as agricultural producers: developmental feminism and peasant women's labour in Bangladesh; the ecofeminist discourse in India; the German feminist school and the thesis of subsistence labour. Part 4 Japanization and women's labour: the Japanese style of management and Fordism compared; Japanese women as a vast reserve army of labour; conclusion -- capital accumulation in contemporary Asia.