Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force
Gender and Inequality in the Global Labor Force
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全球劳动力中的性别和不平等
DOI:
10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093107
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
M. Mills
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作者:
M. Mills
▪ Abstract This review examines the convergence of recent anthropological interests in gender, labor, and globalization. Attention to gender and gender inequality offers a productive strategy for the analysis of globalizing processes and their local variations and contestations. Contemporary ethnographic research explores multiple dimensions of labor and gender inequalities in the global economy: gendered patterns of labor recruitment and discipline, the transnational mobility and commodification of reproductive labor, and the gendered effects of international structural adjustment programs, among others. New and continuing research explores the diverse meanings and practices that produce a gendered global labor force, incorporating the perspectives of men and women, masculinities and femininities, and examines how these processes of gender and labor inequality articulate with other structures of subordination (such as ethnicity and nationality) to shape lived experiences of work and livelihood, exploitat...