The power to choose : Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka /: Bangladeshi women and labour market decisions in London and Dhaka. (2002)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Naila Kabeer.
• Other Names: Kabeer, Naila
• Contents: Labour standards, double standards? Selectivee solidarity in international trade -- "Rational fools" or "cultured dopes"? Stories of structure and agency in the social sciences -- The changing face of Shonar Bangla: background to the Dhaka study -- Renegotiating purdah: women workers and labour market decision making in Dhaka -- Individualised entitlements: factory wages and intrahousehold power relations -- Across seven seas and thirteen rivers: background to the London study -- Reconstituting structure: homeworkers and labour market decision making in London -- Mediated entitlements: home-based piecework and intra-household power relations -- Exclusion and economics in the labour market: explaining the paradox -- The power to choose and "the evidence of things not seen": revisiting structure and agency -- Weak winners, powerful losers: the politics of protectionism in international trade.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Verso
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource (484 pages)
• Subjects: 331.4/089/9141260421; Women -- Employment -- Bangladesh -- Dhaka; Women -- Employment -- England -- London; Travailleuses -- Bangladesh -- Dhaka; Travailleuses -- Angleterre -- Londres; Women -- Employment; Vrouwen; Arbeidsmarkt; Werkverschaffing; Textilindustrie; Heimarbeiterin; Arbeiterin; Arbeitsmarkt; Bangladeschische Einwanderin; Bangladesh -- Dhaka; England -- London; Bangladesch; Großbritannien
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789607833; 1789607833
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.