Global Women's Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy

Part I. Women's agency
1. Recognizing the home workplace: making workers through global labor standards / Eileen Boris
2. Empowerment revisited: capitalist development and women workers in China's reform era / Xiaodan Zhang
3. Peasant women's agency in Bolivia during the global recession: the movement of the Confederacion Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Indigenas Originarias y Afrodescendentes de Bolivia
-Bartolina Sisa / Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen
4. Global women's work in transition: the case of entrepreneurial Bolivian women in apparel production in Sao Paulo, 2013 2014 / Joao Paulo Candia Veiga
5. Gender equality in the European employment strategy / Paola Villa
6. From sister to co-worker: new patterns of feminization of labor in Turkey / Esra Sanoglu
7. Gender, work, and recession: two views from the United States / Brigid O'Farrell
Part II Exploitation vs. opportunity
Contents note continued: 8.Women in the Russian workforce: a retreat from equality? / Carol Nechemias
9. Working poor women in Mexico facing another crisis: domestic workers, struggling with structural disadvantages, and the 2008 recession / Monica Patricia Toledo Gonzalez
10. Women's work in Kenya's Athi River Export Processing Zone: opportunity or exploitation? / Kelly Pike
11. Women and trade liberalization in Egypt / Heba Nassar
12. Women's university attainment and labor force participation in Gulf Cooperation Council countries / Alessandra L. Gonzalez
13. The politics of women and work in Iran / Valentine M. Moghadam
Part III. Negotiations of social and reproductive labor
14. Change and the status quo in home-based industry in south Tamil Nadu, India: women beedi workers confront shifts in the organization of labor and capital / Meena Gopal
15. Mexican and Puerto Rican women in Chicago: a gendered analysis of the 2008 recession / Maura I. Toro-Morn
16. The economic crisis and women's part-time work in Hungary / Erika Kispeter
17. Gendered austerity policies: inequality on the rise in the European Union including Ireland / Ursula Barry
18. From kick-start to U-turn? Gender equality in Sweden / Anita Nyberg.