GENDER AND GLOBALISATION: LABOUR CHANGES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

• Authors: Kolarova M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on gender aspects of globalisation and global restructuring and criticises the masculine bias of mainstream theories of globalisation. It is aimed at adding a global dimension to Czech gender studies. It looks at the way in which globalisation is gendered and based on gender ideologies, and how global restructuring affects and change gender systems. Primarily economic globalisation is addressed, and the changes in the organisation of labour globally are examined. Global production is dependent on cheap women's labour in the factories of multi-national corporations in the global south. The process of rendering labour more flexible and informal is associated with its feminisation. Care work and migration are also becoming feminised on a global scale. The article also analyses domestic work performed in the United States and Western Europe by women migrants from developing countries. All these processes are occurring within the context of neo-liberal policies and the changing role of states amidst a global restructuring, which needs to be examined from a gender perspective.

Keywords

EN

DOMESTIC WORK; GENDER; GLOBALISATION; MIGRATION; PRODUCTION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1241-1257
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kolarova M.

• M. Kolarova, Sociologický ústav AV CR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA02124496