Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415578257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 398 str.

Naila Kabeer

Opis

Examines the constraints that confine women to poorly paid, irregular and casual work that falls outside any formal social security and protective legislation. This book shows how globalization has not in any way been beneficial to this marginalized group.

Spis treści

List of Boxes and Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1. Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives 2. Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of Vulnerability 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework and Empirical Insights 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty 5. Alternative Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection 6. Financial Services for Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods 7. Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age 8. The Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal Economy 9. Towards a ‘Generative’ Model of Social Protection: Making the Links to Development Policy Bibliography About the Author Index

O autorze

Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.