Bringing Commodity Chain Analysis Back to Its World-Systems Roots: Rediscovering Womens Work and Households

Globally between 1980 and 2000, women's economic activity rate expanded, narrowing the gender gap in labor force participation. Thus, females now account for one-third or more of the "officially-counted" personnel of export industries (UNICEF 2007), and export agriculture is now femin...

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Main Author: Wilma Dunaway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2015-08-01
Series:Journal of World-Systems Research
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Online Access:http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/576