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This is an important volume on the social and political effects of globaliztion and its impact on working women in Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, China and the United States.. <br>- Pacific Affairs, Hideki Harajiri, Summer 2003 <br>

'This book develops unique insights into how the processes associated with economic globalisation are impinging upon the lives of ordinary women workers ... the value of this book is in its contribution to debates surrounding the impact of globalisation.' - Millennium<br><br>'Represents a worthy and comprehensive examination of the dynamics and challenges that neo-liberal economic globalisation has placed on women as workers in globalising Asia.' - Labour & Industry

'This book develops unique insights into how the processes associated with economic globalisation are impinging upon the lives of ordinary women workers ... the value of this book is in its contribution to debates surrounding the impact of globalisation.' - Millennium'Represents a worthy and comprehensive examination of the dynamics and challenges that neo-liberal economic globalisation has placed on women as workers in globalising Asia.' - Labour & Industry

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Dong-Sook S. Gills is Senior Lecturer in sociology of gender at the University of Sunderland. She is affiliated faculty at the Elizabethan Research Center, University of Hawaii and an International Advisory Council member of the TODA Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. Her recent publications include Women and Triple Exploitation in Korean Development (1999) and, co-authored with Barry Gills, Globalization and Strategic Choice in South Korea: Economic Reform and Labour (2000)., Nicola Piper is Researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. She is the author of Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship – Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany (1998).

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