Development

, Volume 55, Issue 3, pp 320–324 | Cite as

Women's Worker Rights, Gender Equality, and Economic Justice

  • Lisa A McGowan
Thematic Section
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Abstract

Lisa A. McGowan illustrates how women workers are bringing their feminism, demands for inclusiveness, new ways of building power, and caring practice into what is a hard-nosed and at times deeply conflicted battle to actualize a broad agenda of economic and labour rights. She shows how they contribute to the implementation of a new economic citizenship: a concept that integrates worker rights, social and economic justice, and gender equality.

Keywords

trade unions time poverty workforce informal economy movement building economic crisis 
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  • Lisa A McGowan

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