Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvMarian Baird,Michele Ford,Elizabeth Hill

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This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed, the changing institutional landscape, gender relations and fertility concerns, employer and trade union responses and the challenges policy makers face and the consequences of their decisions for working women. By covering the entire region, including Australia and New Zealand, the book highlights the way different national work and care regimes are linked through migration, with wealthier countries looking to their poorer neighbours for alternative sources of labour. In addition, the book contributes to debates about the barriers to women’s participation in the workforce, the valuation of unpaid care, the gender wage gap, social protection and labour regulation for migrant workers and gender relations in developing Asia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-01-03
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieASAA Women in Asia Series
Antal sidor284
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367186173

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Marian Baird is Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Director of the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia.Michele Ford is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia.Elizabeth Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

1. Work/Care Regimes in the Asia-Pacific: A Feminist FrameworkPart I: Familial/Informal Care Regimes2. China: The Reconfiguring of Women, Work and Care3. Malaysia: Balancing Paid and Unpaid Work4. Singapore: Contradictions in the Work/Care Regime5. Indonesia: Middle-class Complicity and State Failure to Provide Care6. The Philippines: Pressures for Change in the Work/Care Regime7. Cambodia: Managing Work and Care in a Post-Conflict Context8. Bangladesh: Class, Precarity and the Politics of Care9. India: Economic Inequality and Social Reproduction10. Sri Lanka: Working Realities and Gendered FictionsPart II: Familial/Formal Care Regimes 11. Australia: The Care Challenge12. New Zealand: Caring for Women or Women Caring? Part III: Predominantly Familial Care Regimes13. Japan: From Social Reproduction to Gender Equality14. South Korea: Work, Care and the Wollstonecraft Dilemma15. Timor-Leste: Mixed Messages on Work and Care16. Papua New Guinea: Work and Care in a Subsistence Economy

"The book highlights that despite significant differences in care and work regimes, barriers to women’s access to the labour market remain strong across the board. The pressure points for each country are different in accordance with their historical and cultural development, but they all point to emerging needs for change in the role of women care and work patterns."Annick Masselot, Labour & Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work