Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

Marian Baird (University of Sydney, Australia), Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill

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English

Routledge
19 January 2017

Gender studies: women; Labour economics

Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

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.

Edited by: Marian Baird (University of Sydney Australia), Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 690g
ISBN: 9781138119048
ISBN 10: 1138119040
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 19 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Work/Care Regimes in the Asia-Pacific: A Feminist Framework Part I: Familial/Informal Care Regimes 2. China: The Reconfiguring of Women, Work and Care 3. Malaysia: Balancing Paid and Unpaid Work 4. Singapore: Contradictions in the Work/Care Regime 5. Indonesia: Middle-class Complicity and State Failure to Provide Care 6. The Philippines: Pressures for Change in the Work/Care Regime 7. Cambodia: Managing Work and Care in a Post-Conflict Context 8. Bangladesh: Class, Precarity and the Politics of Care 9. India: Economic Inequality and Social Reproduction 10. Sri Lanka: Working Realities and Gendered Fictions Part II: Familial/Formal Care Regimes 11. Australia: The Care Challenge 12. New Zealand: Caring for Women or Women Caring? Part III: Predominantly Familial Care Regimes 13. Japan: From Social Reproduction to Gender Equality 14. South Korea: Work, Care and the Wollstonecraft Dilemma 15. Timor-Leste: Mixed Messages on Work and Care 16. Papua New Guinea: Work and Care in a Subsistence Economy

Marian Baird is Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Director of the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney Business School, Australia. Michele Ford is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Elizabeth Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Reviews for Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

"""The book highlights that despite significant differences in care and work regimes, barriers to women’s access to the labour market remain strong across the board. The pressure points for each country are different in accordance with their historical and cultural development, but they all point to emerging needs for change in the role of women care and work patterns."" Annick Masselot, Labour & Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work"