"This voulume is the outcome of an international workshop on 'Globalisation and women's work in Asia' held in Copenhagen in September 1999"--P. [xv].

Machine generated contents note: Neoliberal economic globalisation and women in Asia: introduction 1 -- DONG-SOOK S. GILLS --1 Globalisation and counter-globalisation 13 -- DONG-SOOK S. GILLS -- 2 Risutora and women in the Japanese labour force 32 -- BEVERLEY BISHOP -- 3 Global capital and local patriarchy: the financial crisis and women workers in South Korea 52 -- UHN CHO -- 4 The economic reform and feminisation of labour in agriculture: the case of rural village women in India 70 -- CHAYA DEGAONKAR AND DONG-SOOK S. GILLS -- 5 Responses to changing labour relations: the case of women's NGOs in Indonesia 90 -- MICHELE FORD -- 6 Facing a new revolution in Vietnam: state textile workers in the post-reform economy 112 -- MILA ROSENTHAL -- 7 Working for global factories: Thai women in electronics export companies in the Northern Regional Industrial Estate 131 SALLY THEOBALD -- 8 The stratification of the garment and textile industries and labour movements in Malaysia 154 -- VICKI CRINIS -- 9 Adjusting to urban capital: rural female labour in state cotton mills in China 169 -- MINGHUA ZHAO AND JACKIE WEST -- 10 Global labour markets and national responses: legal regimes governing female migrant workers in Japan 188 -- NICOLA PIPER -- 11 Asian women immigrants in the US fashion garment industry 209 -- EVELYN HU-DEHART.

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