Beschreibung:
Compares the lives of women in the first and third worlds, examining how women have organized forms of production themselves in the struggle towards breaking down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism have built among them.
Introduction 1 On organising women in casualised work: a global overview 2 Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1940 3 The conditions and organisational activities of women in Free Trade Zones: Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990 4 Weaving dreams, constructing realities: the Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in Mexico 5 Self-Employed Women's Association: organising women by struggle and development 6 Deindustrialisation and the growth of women's economic associations and networks in urban Tanzania 7 Strategies against sweated work in Britain, 1820-1920 8 Homework in West Yorkshire