Production processes and the gendering of industrial work in Asia

Saptari, Ratna

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“…My findings about gender divisions of labor and the substance of gendered discourses of work in Indonesia are supported by existing research on female workers in Indonesia. See Andriyani (1989), Grijns et al (1992), Grijns and van Velzen (1993), Saptari (1995Saptari ( , 2000, Tjandraningsih (1991Tjandraningsih ( , 2000, Wolf (1992), and Yusuf (1991).…”

Section: Gendered Discourses Of Workmentioning

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The Political Economy of Feminization: From “Cheap Labor” to Gendered Discourses of Work

Caraway

2005

Pol Gender

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Scholars have argued that the feminization of industrial work in developing countries since World War II is primarily a result of women being the cheapest source of labor in the global economy. I argue that scholarship on feminization underestimates the power of gender in labor markets by framing it primarily as an issue of lower wages. This article shows how gendered discourses of work-ideas and practices about men and women providing distinct forms of labor-play a critical role in the feminization process. While agreeing with feminization theorists that competitiveness in export sectors forces employers to reduce production costs, I show that firms and sectors facing similar competitive constraints deploy varied gender divisions of labor in production. Gendered discourses of work not only illuminate processes of job allocation and reallocation at the firm level but also provide a means of connecting shop-floor gender divisions of labor with broader gendered patterns of industrialization and help to explain puzzling empirical patterns. They are as important as, and in some cases more important than, wages. By tracing the processes through which work is gendered and regendered, the analysis opens the black box of feminization and shows how changes in industrialization policy set in motion gendered transformations that ultimately resulted in the feminization of manufacturing work in Indonesia.

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Section: Gendered Discourses Of Workmentioning

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The Political Economy of Feminization: From “Cheap Labor” to Gendered Discourses of Work

Caraway

2005

Pol Gender

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“…De acuerdo a Saptari (2000), distintas teóricas feministas han intentado dar una explicación, argumentando, por ejemplo, la asociación del rol de la mujer con el cuidado de la familia, o al hecho de que las tareas de las mujeres no están relacionadas con las tecnologías. Elson y Pearson (1981), en este mismo sentido, apuntan que el trabajo de las mujeres tiene un estatus secundario porque precisamente, ese rol ligado a la familia aparece subordinado al "otro" rol, el de la vida pública, por lo que en el imaginario colectivo nunca aparece la mujer como un ser libre.…”

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Mujeres transfronterizas: el eslabón más vulnerable del "borderland". Una comparativa entre las fronteras de México-Guatemala y España-Marruecos = Cross border women: the most vulnerable link in the borderland. A comparison between borders of the Mexico-Guatemala and Spain-Morocco

Fuentes-Lara

Herrera

2019

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Resumen. Este artículo es fruto de una investigación realizada en dos zonas fronterizas, que pese a estar geográficamente en áreas distintas, comparten características similares y el fenómeno objeto de la investigación, las mujeres transfronterizas. El marco teórico de esta investigación se ha orientado en los estudios de la frontera (border studies) con perspectiva de género. La metodología utilizada está centrada en la etnografía como lógica de investigación social. Tras este proceso los resultados han evidenciado que son los factores estructurales los que determinan las diferencias. Sin embargo, las desigualdades de género homogeneízan sus situaciones y evidencian las diferencias entre las mujeres transfronterizas.Palabras clave: mujeres transfronterizas, borderland, globalización, hispano-marroquí, México-Guatemala.Abstract. This article is the result of a research in borders areas, that, despite being geographically in different areas, they share similar characteristics and the phenomenon object of the investigation, cross border women. The theoretical framework of the research has been oriented in the border studies of the frontier with a gender perspective. The methodology used is oriented on ethnography as logic of social research. After this process, the results that have been achieved have shown that, despite being different contexts on the same social phenomenon, structural factors determine those differences, however, gender inequalities homogenize their situations and show the differences between cross border women.

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Work well and guard your honour: temporary labour migration and the role of adolescent women in Eastern Indonesia

Florey

Healey

2002

Asian Studies Review

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Production processes and the gendering of industrial work in Asia

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

The Political Economy of Feminization: From “Cheap Labor” to Gendered Discourses of Work

The Political Economy of Feminization: From “Cheap Labor” to Gendered Discourses of Work

Mujeres transfronterizas: el eslabón más vulnerable del "borderland". Una comparativa entre las fronteras de México-Guatemala y España-Marruecos = Cross border women: the most vulnerable link in the borderland. A comparison between borders of the Mexico-Guatemala and Spain-Morocco

Work well and guard your honour: temporary labour migration and the role of adolescent women in Eastern Indonesia

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