Renegotiating Local Values: Working Women and Foreign Industry in Malaysia

ISBN-13: 9781138158597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 186 str.

Merete Lie; Ragnhild Lund

Opis

Explores the role of women as social actors who contribute to both continuity and change in their society. It examines the inter-linkages between women, industrial work and relations both within the family and in the local community.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Scope of the Study; Chapter 2 The Approach; Chapter 3 The Malaysian Context; Chapter 4 Small Foreign Companies in Malaysia: Motives for Relocation of Production; Chapter 5 The Factory; Chapter 6 The FELDA: A Settler Society; Chapter 7 Changing Livelihoods; Chapter 8 Changing Lives; Chapter 9 Gender at the Interface: Change and Adaptations;

O autorze

Authored by Lie, Merete; Lund, Ragnhild