Renegotiating Local Values: Working Women and Foreign Industry in Malaysia

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ISBN: 9780700702800 | 0700702806
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Copyright: 1/17/1995

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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.

List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Map of Peninsular Malaysia
The Scope of the Study	p. 1
Gender, Welfare, and the International Division of Labour	p. 2
Key Concepts	p. 6
Gender and Change	p. 10
Meeting the Women of the Study	p. 12
The Approach	p. 17
Research Problems and Analysis	p. 17
Datatypes and Methods	p. 18
In Depth Studies	p. 21
The Malaysian Context	p. 26
Malaysia: History and Population	p. 27
Ethnic Divisions and Educational Policies	p. 29
Religious Traditions	p. 31
Malay Women	p. 32
Small Foreign Companies in Malaysia: Motives for Relocation of Production	p. 35
Developing Industrial Policies	p. 35
Norwegian Companies within Malaysian Industrial Policies	p. 39
Malaysian Industrial Incentives	p. 42
Ownership Structures and Connections to Local Economy	p. 43
Work Organization and Working Conditions	p. 45
Labour Laws and Trade Unions	p. 47
The Scandinavian Model of Democracy at Work	p. 49
Motives for Establishment	p. 50
The Factory	p. 53
First Impressions of the Factory	p. 53
Company Structure	p. 54
The Work: Snelling and Tying	p. 59
The Wages: Not for a Living	p. 61
The Factory as a Social Field	p. 63
Treated as a Girl	p. 65
Temporary Work Makes Temporary Workers	p. 67
The FELDA: A Settler Society	p. 70
The First Visit to the FELDA Settlement	p. 70
FELDA Settlements as Actors of Rural Development	p. 74
Lives and Livelihoods in a FELDA Settlement	p. 78
The Local Esteem of Factory Work	p. 82
Changing Structures and Practices: Who Are the Actors?	p. 84
Changing Livelihoods	p. 87
Women Supporting Livelihoods	p. 88
Material Welfare and Perceptions of Change	p. 89
Survival Strategies of the FELDA Settlers	p. 93
Family Structure and Pooling of Resources	p. 99
Economic Decision-Making	p. 104
Household Expenditures and Budgets	p. 107
Individual Spending and Contributions of Female Workers	p. 110
Towards a New Economic Role for the Woman	p. 118
Changing Lives	p. 121
The Life Stories	p. 121
The Mothers' Childhood	p. 124
Marriage and Adult Life	p. 131
Growing up in a FELDA Village	p. 136
Working Mothers - Working Daughters	p. 142
Continuity and Change: New Responsibilities	p. 145
Gender at the Interface: Change and Adaptations	p. 148
Malay Women in the International Division of Labour	p. 149
The Company and the Local Society: Corresponding Needs	p. 152
The Company and the Female Workers: A Perfect Fit?	p. 154
The Company and the Local Community: Women in Between	p. 156
Appendix 1	p. 159
Appendix 2	p. 160
Notes	p. 163
References	p. 167
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