Bücher der Reihe Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities. This title aims to yield various ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity.

This book examines the varying trajectories of formalisation and their impact on women workers in five developing countries in Asia and Africa: India, Thailand, South Africa, Ghana and Morocco. It provides new evidence that will be applicable across a wide range of developing country contexts.

The full impact of austerity policies across Europe is still being assessed, but it is clear that their gendered impacts have been consistently severe, structural and manifold. They have also been, until now, under-researched and under-estimated. Economics and Austerity in Europe brings together the research of leading feminist economists in the area of gender and austerity economics to perform a rigorous gender-impact analysis both at national and pan-European levels.

Time is more important than money! The time we have to care for one another is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy.

Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the `strategic silence¿ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the `strategic silence¿ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

This volume constitutes the first attempt to identify how the economic crisis and the subsequent austerity policies are affecting women in Europe and the US, tracing the consequences for gender equality in employment and welfare systems in nine case studies from countries facing the most severe adjustment problems.

Explores: how the gender impacts of government policies shape the unequal realities of women, how women have carried on in production and social reproduction and made efforts to improve their status, and how women could adopt a strategy to overcome the gender impacts so as to attain the equality and justice, promised by the Chinese government.

Provides an analysis of sexual orientation discrimination on an international scale. This book includes sections on: wages and jobs; discrimination across institutional contexts; discrimination in cultural institutions including religion, education and sport; and, addressing discrimination through public policies.

Provides an analysis of sexual orientation discrimination on an international scale. This book includes sections on: wages and jobs; discrimination across institutional contexts; discrimination in cultural institutions including religion, education and sport; and, addressing discrimination through public policies.

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars to reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st centuryKey themes explored include the understanding of economies as gendered structures and economic crises as crises in social reproduction, as well as in finance and production, the assessment of economic policies through the lens of women¿s rights and analyses of global transformations in women¿s work.

This book examines the varying trajectories of formalisation and their impact on women workers in five developing countries in Asia and Africa: India, Thailand, South Africa, Ghana and Morocco. It provides new evidence that will be applicable across a wide range of developing country contexts.

With contributions from leading scholars, this anthology critically examines the relationships between gender, growth, development and the World Bank. Highlighting the importance and challenge of taking gender into account in development theory and policy, it will be a useful resource for policymakers, activists and scholars alike.

Examines the relationship between international trade and gender relations. This book aims to demonstrate what feminist economics contributes to the analysis of international trade. It argues that trade expansion and reduction of gender inequality can be combined by implementing a mix and sequence of trade and other economic policies.

In this book, an international team of contributors including Diane Elson, Suzanne Bergeron and Cheryl Doss, provide an assessment of the World Bank.