Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site of production. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this cutting-edge volume fills an important gender gap in the field of global commodity and value chain analysis.
With thirteen chapters by an international group of scholars from sociology, anthropology, economics, women's studies, and geography, this volume begins with an eye-opening feminist critique of existing commodity chain literature. Throughout its remaining five parts, Gendered Commodity Chains addresses ways women's work can be integrated into commodity chain research, the forms women's labor takes, threats to social reproduction, the impact of indigenous and peasant households on commodity chains, the rapidly expanding arenas of global carework and sex trafficking, and finally, opportunities for worker resistance. This broadly interdisciplinary volume provides conceptual and methodological guides for academics, graduate students, researchers, and activists interested in the gendered nature of commodity chains.
About the author
Wilma A. Dunaway is Professor of Sociology in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. She is the author of four books, including most recently Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (2008).
Author(s): Wilma A. Dunaway
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 310
City: Palo Alto
Tags: neoliberal globalization, migrant women, labor exploitation, women’s labor, commodity chains, commodification, neoliberalism, capitalist exploitation
Contents......Page 6
Tables and Figures......Page 10
Foreword - Immanuel Wallerstein......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
Contributors......Page 20
Introduction - Wilma A. Dunaway......Page 26
Part I. Feminist Critiques and Advances of Commodity Chain Analysis......Page 50
Chapter One. A Feminist Approach to Overcoming the Closed Boxes of the Commodity Chain - Jane Collins......Page 52
Chapter Two. Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis: A Framework to Conceptualize Value and Interpret Perplexity - Priti Ramamurthy......Page 63
Part II. Conceptualizing Semiproletarianized Households and Workers in Commodity Chains......Page 78
Chapter Three. Through the Portal of the Household: Conceptualizing Women’s Subsidies to Commodity Chains - Wilma A. Dunaway......Page 80
Chapter Four. Unpaid Labor as Dark Value in Global Commodity Chains - Donald A. Clelland......Page 97
Part III. Women’s Labor and Threats to Social Reproduction in Global Commodity Chains......Page 114
Chapter Five. In Chains at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Gender, The Informal Economy, and Sweated Labor in Global Apparel Production - Robert J. S. Ross......Page 116
Chapter Six. Patriarchy Reconsolidated: Women’s Work in Three Global Commodity Chains of Turkey’s Garment Industry - Saniye Dedeoglu......Page 130
Chapter Seven. Chilean Temporeras and Corporate Construction of Gender Inequalities in Global Food Standards - Carmen Bain......Page 144
Part IV. Integration of Indigenous and Peasant Households into Global Commodity Chains......Page 160
Chapter Eight. Informal Provisioning Chains versus Commodity Chains: Marketing of Indigenous Poverty and Culture as Threats to Households and Women - Kathleen Pickering Sherman and Andrea Akers......Page 162
Chapter Nine. Commodity-Chained Fishing Households: Peasant Subsidization of Exports in a Philippine Seafood-Extractive Enclave - Maria Cecilia Ferolin......Page 181
Part V. Transnational Laborers as Commodities in Global Chains......Page 198
Chapter Ten. Global Care Chains: Bringing in Transnational Reproductive Laborer Households - Nicola Yeates......Page 200
Chapter Eleven. The International Division of Reproductive Labor and Sex-Trafficking Commodity Chains - Nadia Shapkina......Page 215
Part VI. Conceptualizing Social Reproduction and Worker Resistance in Commodity Chains......Page 232
Chapter Twelve. Decomposition of Industrial Commodity Chains, Household Semiproletarianization, and Arenas for Resistance at the Center - Dave Broad......Page 234
Chapter Thirteen. Bringing Resistance to the Conceptual Center: Threats to Social Reproduction and Feminist Activism in Nicaraguan Commodity Chains - Marina Prieto-Carrón......Page 250
Notes......Page 264
Bibliography......Page 272
Index......Page 304
