| Description |
xvi, 464 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-450) and index. |
| Contents |
Labour standards, double standards? Selectivee solidarity in international trade -- "Rational fools" or "cultured dopes"? Stories of structure and agency in the social sciences -- The changing face of Shonar Bangla: background to the Dhaka study -- Renegotiating purdah: women workers and labour market decision making in Dhaka -- Individualised entitlements: factory wages and intrahousehold power relations -- Across seven seas and thirteen rivers: background to the London study -- Reconstituting structure: homeworkers and labour market decision making in London -- Mediated entitlements: home-based piecework and intra-household power relations -- Exclusion and economics in the labour market: explaining the paradox -- The power to choose and "the evidence of things not seen": revisiting structure and agency -- Weak winners, powerful losers: the politics of protectionism in international trade. |
| Summary |
"Naila Kebeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade. While Bangladesh is generally considered a poor, conservative Muslim country, with a long tradition of female seclusion, women here have entered factories to take their place as a prominent, first-generation, industrial labour force. In Britain, on the other hand, a supposedly modern and secular society with a long tradition of female employment, Bangladeshi women are largely concentrated in home-based piecework for the garment industry."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Bangladesh -- Dhaka.
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Women -- Employment -- England -- London.
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Women -- Employment.
(OCoLC)fst01176715
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Bangladesh -- Dhaka.
(OCoLC)fst01212101
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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Vrouwen.
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Arbeidsmarkt.
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Werkverschaffing.
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Textilindustrie.
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Heimarbeiterin.
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Arbeiterin.
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Arbeitsmarkt.
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Bangladeschische Einwanderin.
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Bangladesch.
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Großbritannien.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kabeer, Naila. Power to choose. London ; New York : VERSO, 2000 (OCoLC)651953461 |
| ISBN |
1859848044 (cloth) |
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9781859848043 (cloth) |
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1859842062 (pbk.) |
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9781859842065 (pbk.) |
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