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Transformation of Labour Market and Gender Patterns of Work

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During 1980s and 1990s, the liberalization process in many economies around the world had facilitated the creation of a new integrated global production system. This chapter provides an overview of this new global production system that has reshaped the conceptual terrain of gender, work and employment conditions. It examines how neoliberal economic ideology that underpins global production organization has led to transformation in labour markets. These transformations have been experienced by all the societies of the world, though there are variations in the nature and extent of the experience. The chapter is guided by two principal questions: How has the new global production system shaped the gender pattern of work and employment? What are the outcomes of these transformations for workers, especially for female home-based workers in Global South? We argue in this chapter that the dominance of neoliberal economic discourse and firms’ quest of low-road strategies and practices to shift risk away from the firm are some of the broader trends, which have reshaped the gender pattern of work and employment conditions.

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Naz, F., Bögenhold, D. (2020). Transformation of Labour Market and Gender Patterns of Work. In: Unheard Voices. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54363-1_2

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