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020 _a9781856497411
020 _a856497402
040 _cCUS
082 _a331.4
_bCAM/G
100 _aWichterich, Christa
245 4 _aThe globalized woman: reports from a future of inequality/
_cChrista Wichterich.
260 _aNew York:
_bZed Books,
_c2000.
300 _ax,180 p.
505 _a1 The Global Conveyor-belt Women as a comparative advantage /i Yesterday Upper Lusatia, today Bangladesh, tomorrow China /\ Not every Eden is Paradise/g Trampling people down - just do it /12 Hollow firms, quota hopping and 'swallow' companies /15 The 1 hird World in the Pirst /21 Pushing emancipation or forced labour? /24 Global counterforce - or globalization from below 728 2 Worldwide Service e Postindustrial work 736 Women fending for themselves 742 The global office 744 Isle of the blessed 750 Towards the self-service society 753 The international army of cleaners 756 Body markets 76o 3 Means of Living Land for men, work for women 76g Proteins for the wellfed 774 Hunger and trade /j8 Fast food, junk food, novelty food - or the lost power of the cook 784 Whose seed is it? 786 A step further; the human cell economv 791 4 The Sweeper Women of Structural Adjustment, or the Femlnlzatlon of Social Security Unpayable kibour 797 Honour where honour is due 7ioo The social state discharges its children 7102 Farewell to Arab socialism 7107 Adjusting to adjustment 7i 10 The acrobatics of survival 7112 Matrioshki of the transformation 7i 16 Winner takes all, or the splitting of society 7122 5 Variants of Modernity Consumption as global culture /i2g Decadence and independence /133 Looking west, turning east /136 Identity politics /140 6 Globaiization of the Women's Movements .Movements and networks /145 Alliance for the right to a few square metres of housing /148 The new international women's politics /151 Countering powerlessness /157 Globalized woman /166
650 _aWomen--Employment
650 _aUnemployed women workers
650 _aCompetition, International
650 _aInternational division of labor
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