Gender, Development, and Trade

Women all over the world are increasingly employed - and exploited - at the far end of the global supply chain. Whether by picking fruit in Chile, processing cashews in Mozambique, sewing in Chinas Export Processing Zones, or providing biotech companies with indigenous knowledge in India, women's labour and skill are crucial elements in the scaling up of globalised production processes. It might be argued that women benefit in terms of status and income from this trend, but what are the hidden costs of new trade regimes, and do they outweigh the benefits? What do women stand to lose from trade agreements on agricultural products, intellectual property, and the movement of migrant labour? Contributors to this volume show how women are finding ways to influence national and international trade policy agendas in developed countries and are joining forces in global forums to campaign for reforms. Authors include Nazneen Kanji, Pun Ngai, Peggy Ntseane, Marceline Suman Sahai, and Marceline White. Case studies are cited from a wide range of countries, including Australia, Botswana, China, Mexico, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

ISBN 0855985321   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780855985325 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 196 Publisher Oxfam Publishing   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxfam Professional   Series ISSN 0968-286 Format Paperback   Series title Oxfam Focus on Gender Publication date 01 Jul 2004   Height (mm) 246 Library of Congress 2004484951   Width (mm) 189 DEWEY 382.082091724   Spine width (mm) 5 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Undergraduate Pages 100

		Editorial by Maree Keating		2
		'Good jobs' and hidden costs : women workers documenting the price of precarious employment by Thalia Kidder and Kate Raworth		12
		Global trade and home work : closing the divide by Annie Delaney		22
		Women workers and precarious employment in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China by Pun Ngai		29
		Being a female entrepreneur in Botswana : cultures, values, strategies for success by Peggy Ntseane		37
		Look FIRST from a gender perspective : NAFTA and the FTAA by Marceline White		44
		Are trade agreements with the EU beneficial to women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific? by Karin Ulmer		53
		TRIPS and biodiversity : gender perspective by Suman Sahai		58
		Women, trade, and migration by Don Flynn and Eleonore Kofman		66
		Gender, the Doha development agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations by Mariama Williams		73
		Corporate responsibility and women's employment : the case of cashew nuts by Nazneen Kanji		82
		Resources by Leigh, Erin		88

 Be the first to write a customer review