Sex, Maids, and Export Processing: Risks and Reasons for Gendered Global Production Networks |
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Authors: | Jean L Pyle |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, USA;(2) Center for Women and Work, University of Massachusetts—Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | Increasing numbers of women have become sex workers, maids, or employees in export production networks—all largely female sectors—to earn incomes in the restructured global economy. Many must migrate domestically and internationally. Women encounter many risks and much insecurity in these sectors: low wages, no benefits, long hours, harassment, health hazards, and lack of rights or legal recourse. By examining work in these three sectors simultaneously, we find that, as a result of globalization, economic restructuring, and crises, 1) women have increasingly been forced into such income-earning activities and 2) many governments have been pushed into strategies that foster these occupations. |
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Keywords: | sex maids domestics Export Processing Zones (EPZs) home-based work globalization |
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