num_pages: 401
description: The international financial system is in a transitional phase--the world center of capitalist accumulation will soon be East Asia with Japan at its center. Based on original research in Asia, this important book analyzes women’s labor in the rapidly expanding economies of Asian societies. Peter Custers reasserts the importance of Marxist theory both analytically and politically for the understanding of Asian economies, while also critiquing Marx’s patriarchal inheritance via the work of feminist thinkers such as Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva. This book is major contribution to contemporary debates in economics, political theory and feminism.
language: English
title: Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies
publisher: Zed Books