Capital Accumulation and Women's Labor in Asian Economies

The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best available summary of this crucial -process as it took hold at the very end of the twentieth century. This new edition brings the discussion up to 2011 with an extensive introduction by world-famous economist Jayati Ghosh of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Peter Custers is a theoretician and international campaigner. For many years he has worked to support class struggles waged by landless peasants in Bangladesh and South Asia. He is a member of IDEAs (International Development Economics Associates) and of the Euro-Memorandum Group, and the author of Questioning Globalized Militarism. Jayati Ghosh is professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates.