HOWARD BRASTED Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, AustraliaMALCOLM FALKUS Emeritus Professor, University of New England, AustraliaIAN METCALFE Deputy Director of the Asia Centre, University of New England, AustraliaVIVIAN LIN Chair of Public Health and Head of the School of Public Health, Le Trobe University, AustraliaSAMITA SEN Reader, Department of History, Calcutta University, IndiaELISE K. TIPTON Lecturer in Japanese History, University of Sydney, AustraliaDENIS WRIGHT Senior Lecturer in History, University of New England, Australia

• Introduction; A.Kaur Framing Women Workers: Gender-Related Socio-Demographic and Economic Indicatorsin Asia; I.Metcalfe Economic Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation and Labour-intesive Export Manufactures: An Asian Perspective; A.Kaur Female Wage Labour in Perspective; M.Falkus Women, Work and Household in Industrialising Asia; S.Sen The Global Factory: Cross-Border Production Networks and Women Workers in Asia; A.Kaur Sub-Contracting, Small-Batch Production and Home-based Women Workers; D.Wright Japanese Women and the 'Cult of Productivity'; E.K.Tipton Women Workers and Health: Semi-Conductor Industry in Singapore and Malaysia; V.Lin Labour, Industry and the State in Industrialising Asia: An Owerview; A.Kaur Women, Labour Standards and Industrial Organisation; H.Brasted