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Gender, Development, and Trade (Paperback, New)
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Gender, Development, and Trade (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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Women all over the world are increasingly joining the bottom rungs
of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile,
processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in China's export
Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous
knowledge in India, women's labor and skill is a crucial element of
the scaling-up of globalized production processes. It can be argued
that increased opportunities to join the cash economy are a
positive development for women, whose additional income has the
potential to increase both their status and the well-being of the
family. But what are the hidden costs of new trade regimes, and do
they outweigh the benefits? What do women stand to lose and how do
trade agreements on intellectual property, movement of migrant
labor, and agriculture potentially entrench overall poverty and
women's over-burdened gender role further? Women are finding ways
to influence national and international trade policy agendas in
developed countries such as the United States and Australia, and
are linking globally at global forums such as Cancun. Contributors
to this volume cover issues in countries including China, Botswana,
Mozambique, and Mexico and explore some of the many dimensions of
gender, gender relations and trade in local and cross-border
enterprise, regional agreements, and the WTO. Mariama Williams
gives us an overview of the key issues from Cancun as they affect
women and gender reforms. Authors such as Marceline White, Alison
Symington, and Suman Sumai look at particular ways in which trade
agreements can lead countries into contradictory positions
regarding their commitments to other social and legal treaties and
national policies. Eleonore Kaufman writes about how trade
incentives to encourage freedom of movement for workers and
migration policies co-exist. Kate Raworth and Thalia Kidder and
Annie Delaney and Pun Ngai explore the hidden costs of casualized
and informal labor regimes to women. Peggy Ntseane discusses the
different trade strategies used by women and men at the level of
small and medium enterprise.
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