Description
Young Third World women work on assembly lines in factories throughout the world, and it is not clear whether the work enhances or marginalizes their socioeconomic position. What strategies have employers used to control these workers, and how have the women resisted the tactics? The contributors to Women Workers and Global Restructuring use a variety of research methods, including field work, survey research, and analysis of government data, to address these questions. They focus on countries at the core of the global economy (Japan and United States), at the semiperiphery (Greece, Ireland and Taiwan), and at the periphery (Colombia, Indonesia, and Mexico); on different industries (electronics, garment manufacturing, and others in the service and informal sectors); and on plants with different markets (domestic and export) and different settings (rural and urban).
