Women's Labour

Contrary to the commonsense that understands logistical networks in terms of products, money, and impersonal chains and flows of information , recent research has focused on the human side of logistics (Neilson and Rossiter 2014). This chapter investigates the interaction of existing 'big' logistical systems with human action, and details alternative logistical networks that mirror big logistics, but also point to the gendered profile of paid logistical work. From the margins of the Bengali port city of Haldia, I focus not on the capital associated with big logistics but on how its excesses and spillages create networks of their own. Women, children, and the elderly populate this alternative logistical world, but—unlike the machinery, money, and movements that characterize male labour in Haldia—their work gets swept under the carpet in the predominant logis-tical vision of the port city.

The mainstream economic development literature conceals many social inequalities and hierarchical relationships and therefore unequal access to public and private resources in Capitalism. One of these hierarchical relations is the unequal gender relations that persist on the basis of patriarchal culture. The mainstream literature on economic development justifies patriarchal relationship patterns and unequal gender relations via ignoring the unrequited, oppressive and unequal nature of women’s reproductive activities in the home on the one hand; and the widespread use of women in low-paid/non-paid, precarious, low skilled agricultural and non-agricultural service jobs in the public sphere on the other hand. In this paper, historically, it will be focused on alternative forms of analysis that reveal unequal economic/social relations and productive activities of women inside the mainstream economic development literature.

This paper examines how the production of ”asli” commodity through a
local/global dialectic in contemporary global facing Sumba weaving
contributes to shifts and contradictions in gender roles as they are
shaped simultaneously through local community needs and through a
global facing westernized patriarchal business ethos. The increasing
global north facing integration of global south production communities
into the world markets for instance, leads to a masculinization of
management and global facing leadership while along with a feminization
of the local production process. Evidence for observations were drawn
from over fifty indepth interviews and onsite observation.

The phrase, “money is no object,” is a comical one. Under capitalism, money is the most sublime object. Drawing upon a Feminist- Lacanian position, this paper considers the limitations of MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) in its attempt to integrate care as an aestheticised category, arguing that it is merely another case of the Emperor's New Clothes.

After decades of the subject being at the top of all organisation's agenda to increase the gender diversity in male-dominant industries, still the advancement of hiring women in these industries are very slow. This research article intended to explore the chances of Women Laborers Taking over Manly Jobs at Hussein Atieh and Sons Company in Amman-Jordan-being a male dominant environment‖ on increasing the performance of the organisation. A questionnaire was usedto collectdata. The sample was randomly chosenfrom a population of (100) employees working in middle and low levels.75 employees responded to the questionnaire but 29 of them either did not answer the questionnaire fully or answer the same statement twice with different responses. 46 answered questionnaires were retrieved with valid answersand used for data analysis. Statistical Analysis for Social Sciences (SPSS) was performed to conduct t-tests, in order to compare means of variables.Regression analysis was conducted in order to measurethe mediation relationship between the variables. The results of this study indicate that the performance of the company increases when increasing the number of women employees in male-dominant jobs. Hypothesis testing results show that gender diversity by increasing the women laborers in such male dominant company will affect different aspects of the work performance such as; increasing company turnover, increasing productivity, improvement of the work atmosphere and increasing the reputation of the company. A recommendation for the organisation is that they redesign different human resource hiring strategy attend to hire more women in future vacancies to increase the work diversity.

Sweatshop Warriors is a hopeful defense against dark visions of labor's future; it lights hope. Louie has written a clear and compelling book that details the working conditions and union-organizing struggles among Chinese, Chicana, Mexican, Korean, Thai and other women in the US garment, food service and other industries.

This article examines the representations of Italian seamstresses in two postWorld War II Italian films, Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (Emmer, 1952), and Le amiche (Antonioni, 1955). Seamstresses were one of the few female workforces to gain notoriety and visibility in the urban landscape following World War II. They embody a critical contradiction between modernity and domesticity for women of this period. This article assesses how filmic representations are symptomatic of anxiety around women’s work, increased female mobility, and changing gender roles. Doreen Massey’s theory of space and gender (1994) is deployed to propose that urban space is not simply geographical, but is indicative of social space, ideological space, and gender relations.