Women's work, nimble fi ngers and women's mobility in the global economy

The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 421-426

  Pearson, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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1. Elson, Diane and Ruth Pearson (1981) ""Nimble fi ngers make cheap workers": an analysis of women's employment in Third World export manufacturing', Feminist Review, 7, 87-107.
2. Freeman, Carla (2000) High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work and Pink- collar Identities in the Caribbean, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
3. Ngai, Pun (2005) Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
4. Pearson, Ruth (1997) "Renegotiating the reproductive bargain: gender analysis of economic transition in Cuba in the 1990s', Development and Change, 28, 671-705.
5. Pearson, Ruth (1998) ""Nimble fi ngers" revisited: refl ections on women and Third World industrialisation in the late twentieth century', in Cecile Jackson and Ruth Pearson (eds), Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy, London, Routledge, pp. 171-88.
6. Standing, Guy (1999) Global Labour Flexibility: Seeking Distributive Justice, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
7. Wright, Melissa (2006) Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism, London: Routledge