Md Saidul Islam, Md Ismail Hossain

Social Justice in the Globalization of Production (eBook, PDF)

Labor, Gender, and the Environment Nexus

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations; and how a broader global social justice can mitigate the tensions and improve the conditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137434012
• Artikelnr.: 44170028

Autorenporträt

Iris Carla De Jesus, Researcher, Humboldt University, Germany Tommy Kevin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Md Saiful Islam, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Inhaltsangabe

1. Globalization of production; with Tommy Kevin
2. Labor, gender and the environment: Analytic framework
3. Globalization and labor rights: Trends and trajectories
4. Women in employment: Local dynamics, global pressures
5. Third world industrialization: Women workers between exploitation and
survival
6. Migrant labor: Conditions, contradictions and confrontations; with Iris
Carla De Jesus
7. Migrant labor: Conditions, contradictions and confrontations
8. Industrial disasters and implications for labor and gender; with Md
Saiful Islam
9. Global treadmill of production and the environment
10. Conclusion: Social justice in the globalization of production

Rezensionen

"Social Justice in the Globalisation of Production: Labor, Gender, and the Environment Nexus is a well-written, engaging and insightful book by Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain on the theme of neoliberal globalization. ...Overall, the book is a good read. ... The book is an important addition to the literature on gender, globalization and development, environmental sociology, international development, economic and development geography amongst others." (Regina Hansda, Progress in Development Studies, Vol. 17 (2), 2017)