Naila Kabeer

Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the constraints that confine women to poorly paid, irregular and casual work that falls outside any formal social security and protective legislation. The author shows how globalization has not in any way been beneficial to this marginalized group.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415578257
• ISBN-10: 0415578256
• Artikelnr.: 28955280

Autorenporträt

Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Boxes and Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Foreword 1.
Risk, Vulnerability and Social Protection: International Perspectives 2.
Gender and Trends in the Global Labour Force: New and Persisting Forms of
Vulnerability 3. Gender, Life Course and Livelihoods: Analytical Framework
and Empirical Insights 4. Preventing Child Labour, Promoting Education:
Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty 5. Alternative
Approaches to Employment-based Social Protection 6. Financial Services for
Women in the Informal Economy: Protecting and Promoting Livelihoods 7.
Pensions and Transfers: Social Protection in Old Age 8. The
Indispensability of Voice: Organising for Social Protection in the Informal
Economy 9. Towards a 'Generative' Model of Social Protection: Making the
Links to Development Policy Bibliography About the Author Index