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Social Justice in the Globalization of Production

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137434012

ISBN: 978-1-349-57268-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 24, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1The Globalization of Production

Kevin, Tommy

Pages: 1 –13

[From the beginning, it is part of the human condition to labor collectively and utilize the surroundings and its resources for survival and reproduction. Since the beginning, the dynamics among labor, gender and the environment characterizes the production and perpetuation of human social lives.]
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Chapter 2Labor, Gender and the Environment: Analytic Framework

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 14 –36

[This chapter will look into a range of theories that have been propounded to explain the issue of labor and gender justice. The understandings and policy initiatives demonstrated concerning social justice are not limited to a singular approach but rather a myriad of distinct and unique...
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Chapter 3Globalization, Gender and Labor Rights: Trends and Trajectories

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 37 –52

[This chapter explores the complex intersection between gender and labor in the globalization of production. By reviewing the existing literature, this chapter draws on the central debates concerning the employment of women in global manufacturing enterprises, which will be organized into three...
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Chapter 4Women in Employment: Local Dynamics, Global Pressures

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 53 –72

[Women’s involvement in wage earning activities is viewed as a process of empowering them. This is particularly important in the Third World countries where hierarchical gender relations exist between men and women. Women’s earnings change the status of women in the family and increase their...
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Chapter 5Third World Industrialization: Women Workers between Exploitation and Survival

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 73 –87

[Many scholars have argued that the expansion of global manufacturing is enhancing social justice through providing employment opportunities for women; on the other hand, others have claimed that economic globalization is less likely to expand freedom and labor justice since global manufacturing...
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Chapter 6Globalizing Food and a Tale of Two Revolutions: Labor, Gender and the Environment

De Jesus, Iris Carla

Pages: 88 –107

[The process of local and regional integration into global markets was intensified during a time known as the “first green revolution”, characterized by a technical package of bioengineered hybrid seeds requiring chemical and mechanical inputs, designed to improve agricultural productivity in...
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Chapter 7Migrant Labor: Conditions, Contradictions and Confrontations

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 108 –125

[With the advent of the neoliberal globalization project following the debt crisis in the 1970s, the meaning of development was changed and reframed as “successful participation in the world economy” (McMichael, 2008: 151), characterized by Iiberalization that includes “privatization of public...
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Chapter 8Profit over Life: Industrial Disasters and Implications for Labor and Gender

Islam, Saiful

Pages: 126 –143

[The history of the industrial revolution in England in the late 18th century reveals the inhuman life of the working-class people. It is the nascent picture of class struggle between employer and workers from which a powerful group reaps benefit exploiting the powerless. A similar trend of...
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Chapter 9The Global Treadmill of Production and the Environment

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 144 –158

[The intent of this chapter is to illustrate how the global “treadmill of production” (see the section below) arguably leads to the global “treadmill of destruction”. Drawing upon the theory developed by Allan Schnaiberg (1980), the treadmill of production (ToP) focuses on production as the key...
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Chapter 10Conclusion: Social Justice in the Globalization of Production

Islam, Saidul; Hossain, Ismail

Pages: 159 –174

[Ever since its inception, capitalism has taken several forms to sustain its position as a dominant form of economic system. The basic form of capitalism was found in agrarian societies where commodity surpluses were sold for profit. During the Industrial Revolution, as society progressed into...

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