| Description |
1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Series |
Asian Studies Association of Australia Women in Asia Series |
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ASAA women in Asia series.
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| Contents |
1. Work/care regimes in the Asia-Pacific : a feminist framework / Elizabeth Hill, Michele Ford and Marian Baird -- Part I. Familial/informal care regimes -- 2. China : the reconfiguring of women, work and care / Minglu Chen, Jie Hao and Marian Baird -- 3. Malaysia : balancing paid and unpaid work / Vicki Crinis and Alifa Bandali -- 4. Singapore : contradictions in the work/care regime / Lenore Lyons -- 5. Indonesia : middle-class complicity and state failure to provide care / Michele Ford and Nurchayati-- 6. The Philippines : pressures for change in the work/care regime / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern -- 7. Cambodia : managing work and care in a post-conflict context / Kristy Ward -- 8. Bangladesh : class, precarity and the politics of care / Dina Siddiqi and Hasan Ashraf -- 9. India : economic inequality and social reproduction / Elizabeth Hill and Rajni Palriwala -- .10. Sri Lanka : working realities and gendered fictions / Matt Withers -- Part II. Familial/formal care regimes -- 11. Australia : the care challenge / Alexandra Heron, Rae Cooper and Gabrielle Meagher -- 12. New Zealand : caring for women or women caring? / Katherine Ravenswood and Belinda Smith -- Part III. Familial care regimes -- 13. Japan : from social reproduction to gender equality / Reiko Ogawa -- 14. South Korea : work, care and the Wollstonecraft dilemma / Joohee Lee -- 15. Timor-Leste : mixed messages on work and care / Michele Ford -- 16. Papua New Guinea : work and care in a subsistence economy / Jane Parker, James Arrowsmith and Anne Boyd |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- East Asia -- Social conditions
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Women -- Pacific Area -- Social conditions
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Older people -- Home care -- East Asia
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Older people -- Home care -- Pacific Area
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Caregivers -- East Asia
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Caregivers -- Pacific Area
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Women employees -- East Asia
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Women employees -- Pacific Area
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Caregivers
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Older people -- Home care
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Women employees
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Women -- Social conditions
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East Asia
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Pacific Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baird, Marian, editor.
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Ford, Michele, editor.
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Hill, Elizabeth, 1967- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317313144 |
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1317313143 |
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9781317313151 |
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1317313151 |
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9781315652467 |
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1315652463 |
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