Gendered commodity chains : seeing women's work and households in global production / edited by Wilma A. Dunaway. - 1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A feminist approach to overcoming the closed boxes of the commodity chain / Jane Collins -- Feminist commodity chain analysis : a framework to conceptualize value and interpret perplexity / Priti Ramamurthy -- Through the portal of the household : conceptualizing women's subsidies to commodity chains / Wilma A. Dunaway -- Unpaid labor as dark value in global commodity chains / Donald A. Clelland -- In chains at the bottom of the pyramid : informal economy, gender and sweated labor in global apparel production / Robert J. S. Ross -- Patriarchy reconsolidated : women's work in three global commodity chains of Turkey's garment industry / Saniye Dedeoglu -- Chilean temporeras and corporate construction of gender inequalities in global food standards / Carmen Bain -- Informal provisioning chains versus commodity chains : marketing of indigenous poverty and culture as threats to households and women / Kathleen Pickering Sherman and Andrea Akers -- Commodity chained fishing households : peasant subsidization of exports in a Philippine seafood extractive enclave / Maria Cecilia Ferolin -- Global care chains : bringing in transnational reproductive laborer households / Nicola Yeates -- The international division of reproductive labor and sex trafficking commodity chains / Nadia Shapkina -- Decomposition of industrial commodity chains, household semiproletarianization and arenas for resistance at the center / Dave Broad -- Bringing resistance to the conceptual center : threats to social reproduction and feminist activism in Nicaraguan commodity chains / Marina Prieto-Carron.

9780804788960 (e-book)


Women--Employment.
Women--Economic conditions.
Households--Economic aspects.
Sex role--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Economic aspects.


Electronic books.

HD6053 / .G4633 2014eb

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