Gender and Work in Global Value Chains : Capturing the Gains? Paperback / softback
by Stephanie (University of Manchester) Barrientos
Part of the Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of contemporary retail and global sourcing.
This has affected the working lives of hundreds of millions of workers in high-, middle- and low-income countries.
The growth of contemporary retail has been driven by the commercialised production of many goods previously produced unpaid by women within the home.
Sourcing is now largely undertaken through global value chains in low- or middle-income economies, using a 'cheap' feminised labour force to produce low-price goods.
As women have been drawn into the labour force, households are increasingly dependent on the purchase of food and consumer goods, blurring the boundaries between paid and unpaid work.
This book examines how gendered patterns of work have changed and explores the extent to which global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:334 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781108729239
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:334 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108729239
