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Title The global political economy of the household in Asia / edited by Juanita Elias and Samanthi J. Gunawardana
Published [Basingstoke?] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series International political economy series
International political economy series (Palgrave (Firm))
Contents Introduction; Juanita Elias and Samanthi J. Gunawardana -- PART 1 THE STATE AND THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY: COMPETITIVENESS, DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY -- 1. Women Hold up the Anti-Welfare Regime: How Social Policies Produce Social Differentiation in Singapore; Teo You Yenn -- 2. The State and the Foreign Relations of Households: The Malaysia-Indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute; Juanita Elias -- 3. Armed Resistance, Economic (In)security and the Household: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurgency in India; -- Swati Parashar -- 4. Rural Sinhalese women, Nationalism and Narratives of Development in Sri Lanka's Postwar Political Economy; Samanthi J. Gunawardana -- PART 2 THE HOUSEHOLD AS A SITE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION -- 5. Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: 'Frontier' Women in Indian cities; Duncan McDuie Ra -- 6. Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Marriage Migration to South Korea; Lee Hyunok -- 7. Single Women and their Households in Contemporary Japan; Laura Dales -- 8. "Because We Have Husbands With Full-time Jobs . . .": The State, the Household and Home Care Work in Japan; Kaye Broadbent -- PART 3 THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE GENDERED WORKPLACE -- 9. It's the (Household) Economy, Stupid! Pension Reform, Collective Resistance and the Reproductive Sphere in Sri Lanka; Kanchana N. Ruwanpura -- 10. Vietnamese Migrant Clothing Workers in Malaysia: Global production, Transnational Labour Migration and Social Reproduction; Vicki Crinis -- 11. Work, Employment and Welfare of Chinese Rural Women: The Impact of Household Structure and Implications for Social Policy; Fang Lee Cooke -- 12. Extreme Jobs and the Household: Work and Care in the New India; Elizabeth Hill -- 13. Waste-Recycling and the Household Economy: The Case of the Pune Waste-Pickers Response to the Changing "Rules of the Game"; Patrick Kilby -- Conclusions: The Significance of the Household to Asia's Transformation and to Studies of the Global Political Economy; Samanthi J. Gunawardana and Juanita Elias
Summary The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy. While there is an emergent literature that looks at this relationship, to date, it is fragmented. The contributors consider how the household economy has increasingly been incorporated into development planning and policy making within both states and multilateral development agencies. They examine the social consequences of the tendency to view households as marketizable spaces, and explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region. With case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, they provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household economy to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-257) and index
Notes Online resource; title from title details screen (Palgrave Connect, viewed October 21, 2013)
Subject Households -- Economic aspects -- Asia
Development economics & emerging economies -- Asia.
Political economy -- Asia.
Development studies -- Asia.
Sociology: family & relationships -- Asia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic history
Households -- Economic aspects
Development economics & emerging economies -- Asia.
Political economy -- Asia.
Development studies -- Asia.
Sociology: family & relationships -- Asia.
Economics.
SUBJECT Asia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008615
Subject Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Elias, Juanita, editor author
Gunawardana, Samanthi J., editor author
ISBN 9781137338907
1137338903
1306093236
9781306093231
9781137338891
113733889X