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Women Organising in the Process of Deindustrialisation

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Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy

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Women organising in the process of industrialisation or deindustrialisation in the 1990s face the challenges posed by a rapidly changing international economy. The sustained growth experienced in the developed central economies in the aftermath of World War II (the ‘Golden Age’ of the Fordist regime of accumulation (Lipietz, 1987; Marglin and Schor, 1990), was followed by successive crises in the late 1970s; the monetarist shock of the early 1980s, the restructuring of these same economies, and the consolidation of main blocks (the USA/Canada, the EEC, Japan, NICs) originating different modes of articulation with countries of the periphery or even with regions of this same periphery.

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    Amrita Chhachhi (Lecturer in Women’s Studies) (Lecturer in Women’s Studies)

  2. Women and Davelopment Programme, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands

    Renée Pittin (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Roldan, M. (1996). Women Organising in the Process of Deindustrialisation. In: Chhachhi, A., Pittin, R. (eds) Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24450-8_3

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