1st Edition

Renegotiating Local Values Working Women and Foreign Industry in Malaysia

By Merete Lie, Ragnhild Lund Copyright 1995
    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    Explores the role of women as social actors who contribute to both continuity and change in their society. It examines the inter-linkages between women, industrial work and relations both within the family and in the local community.

    Chapter 1 The Scope of the Study; Chapter 2 The Approach; Chapter 3 The Malaysian Context; Chapter 4 Small Foreign Companies in Malaysia: Motives for Relocation of Production; Chapter 5 The Factory; Chapter 6 The FELDA: A Settler Society; Chapter 7 Changing Livelihoods; Chapter 8 Changing Lives; Chapter 9 Gender at the Interface: Change and Adaptations;

    Biography

    Authored by Lie, Merete; Lund, Ragnhild