1st Edition

Working Women International Perspectives on Labour and Gender Ideology

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    As the female labour force continues to expand, the terms on which women participate remain a considerable problem. Working Women presents a detailed examination of women's position in the paid workforce in a variety of first and third world countries and identifies the common cultural and economic factors which create disadvantage.

    Chapter 1 Women, work and skill, M.Thea Sinclair; Chapter 2 Gender and library work, Maura Luck; Chapter 3 Images and goods, Adelina Broadbridge; Chapter 4 Shop floor control, Yildiz Ecevit; Chapter 5 Prostitution and tourism in South-East Asia, Wendy Lee; Chapter 6 Return to the veil, Homa Hoodfar; Chapter 7 Women in struggle, Avril Leonard; Chapter 8 Women shop stewards in a county branch of NALGO, Jenny Walton; Chapter 9 Money and power, Joy Lyon; Chapter 10 Greek women and tourism, Mary Castelberg-Koulma; Chapter 11 A feminist business in a capitalist world, Jane Cholmeley;

    Biography

    Nanneke Redclift is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at University College, London,
    Thea Sinclair is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent.