Capital Accumulation and Womens Labour in Asian Economies

The international financial system is in a transitional phasethe world center of capitalist accumulation will soon be East Asia with Japan at its center. Based on original research in Asia, this important book analyzes womens labor in the rapidly expanding economies of Asian societies. Peter Custers reasserts the importance of Marxist theory both analytically and politically for the understanding of Asian economies, while also critiquing Marxs patriarchal inheritance via the work of feminist thinkers such as Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva. This book is major contribution to contemporary debates in economics, political theory and feminism.