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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site of production. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this cutting-edge volume fills an important gender gap in the field of global commodity and value chain analysis. With thirteen chapters by an international group of scholars from sociology, anthrop. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment.
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Women -- Employment. |
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Women -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Economic conditions. |
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Households -- Economic aspects.
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Households -- Economic aspects. |
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Sex role -- Economic aspects.
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Sex role -- Economic aspects. |
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Sex role. |
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Globalization -- Economic aspects.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Dunaway, Wilma A., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780804787949 0804787948 (DLC) 2013026234 |
| ISBN |
9780804788960 (electronic book) |
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0804788960 (electronic book) |
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9780804787949 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0804787948 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780804789080 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0804789088 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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