Global Women's Work ― Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy

Global Women’s Work: Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labour, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labour force participation and workplace activism.

The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and re-negotiations of unpaid social reproductive labour. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.

Beth English is a research associate and Director of the Project on Women in the Global Community at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Mary E. Frederickson Mary Frederickson is currently Visiting Professor at Emory University, where she has appointments in the Rollins School of Public Health and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where she taught from 1988-2015.

Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati.