Ruth Pearson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3661584 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ruth Pearson |
| PRENOMES | Ruth |
| SOBRENOME | Pearson |
| ASSINATURA | PEARSON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5741-5050 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 371 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Measuring lunchtime consumption in school cafeterias
Objective The present study tested the validity of a digital image-capture measure of food consumption suitable for use in busy school cafeterias. Design Lunches were photographed pre- and post-consumption, and food items were weighed pre- and post-consumption for comparison. Setting A small research team recorded children’s lunchtime consumption in one primary and one secondary school over seven working days. Participants A primary-school sample…
Introduction
This issue of Gender & Development focuses on migrant women workers in a global economy, seeing their experiences through the lens of feminist analysis. We are making a conscious choice to adopt th
Gender and Globalization
Globalization of production, involving internationalization of production and migration, often facilitated by technological change, intersects in contradictory ways with gender relations. While opportunities for wage work offer advantages for many women, they are also frequently faced with exploitative—or even dangerous—working conditions. While indices of gender and development reflect ongoing improvement in women's situations, this masks ongoin…
Optima Nutrition
A resource optimization tool can provide important guidance for targeting nutrition investments to achieve greater impact
Working through exceptional space
This article focuses on the borderland of Thailand with Myanmar and analyzes how Burmese women migrant workers are both victimized - Agamben's homo sacer - by the exceptional space of the borderland, but also are able to actively utilize the opportunities afforded by the particular space of the border to juggle their responsibilities and life options. The article focuses on how women migrant workers arrange their healthcare, childcare and childre…
Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom
This paper sets out a framework for understanding the impacts of the financial crisis and its aftermath that is based on the idea of three interacting spheres: finance, production and reproduction. All of these spheres are gendered and globalised. The gendered impact of the current crisis is discussed in terms of the impact on unemployment, employment protection and security, public sector services, social security benefits, pensions, and the rea…
Striking Women-Striking Out
Between 2007-9, as part of the AHRC- funded research project, we sought to document and analyse the struggles of South Asian women workers in London, challenging dominant stereotypes about South Asian women‘s docility and dependence. This research involved life history interviews with migrant women workers of South Asian origin who took part in the two disputes. Following on from that project, we have translated the research findings into materia…
Striking Narratives
This article explores the ways in which dominant narratives and images constructed the industrial dispute that took place between 1976 and 1978 at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Britain's capital city, London. Since 1978, this strike has achieved almost mythic status in British labour history, as the moment when the trade unions supported the demands of minority women workers. The authors argue that the dominant narratives and image…
Cross-border childcare strategies of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand
In discussing the challenges of cross-border childcare faced by migrant workers, most research focuses on ‘distance mothering’, assuming that children remain in the place of origin. In contrast, this article focuses on childcare at the place of destination in the context of migrant Burmese factory workers in Thailand. Since many of these workers are ‘undocumented’, they have few rights in their place of destination. This is especially problematic…
Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
1. Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers * 2. Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies * 3. Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries * 4. Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences * 5. Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care * 6. After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities * 7. Burmese migrant worker…
Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. Un-documented and unregulated, this army of migrant workers constitutes the ultimate ‘disposable’ labour force, enduring gruelling working conditions and much aggression from the Thai police and immigration authorities. This insightful book ventures into a part of the global economy rarely witnessed by Western observer…
Introduction to business and enterprise
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Views, events, and debates
In this issue, we profile Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA), a pioneering women's rights organisation anchored in the global South, and led by Southern feminists. CREA is based in New Delhi and works with its networks across India and the surrounding South Asian region. CREA has also built extensive partnerships with women's rights organisations in Central Asia and East Africa and has a satellite office in New York. Together wit…
Who Cares? Gender, Reproduction, and Care Chains of Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
This study analyzes the challenges facing Burmese women factory workers in Thailand who seek to secure the daily reproduction of their labor power as well as the generational reproduction of their children. It illustrates how the reproduction of workers' labor is crucial for the social reproduction of a global economy in which migration is increasingly central to the changing contours of economic development and accumulation. Based on twenty-four…
Striking lives
This article draws on the narratives of the two groups of South Asian women (SAW) in the UK who took part in industrial disputes some 30 years apart, in order to examine the ways in which they have negotiated their way through their classed, racialized and gendered inclusion in the labour market. The comparison of the Grunwick and the Gate Gourmet disputes and the employment histories of the actors involved in these disputes enables us to explore…
Gender and Global Restructuring
Gender and Development 19 (2011) DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2011.592656 Marchand, Marianne and Anne Sisson Runyan (eds.) Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances. Second Edition
Striking similarities
The focus of this article is two significant episodes in British labour politics. The first is the Grunwick strike between 1976 and 1978; the second a dispute at Gate Gourmet that began in 2005. In both disputes, women of South Asian origin were the key actors and their legacy has been constructed through striking imagery as one in which against the odds exotic or passive Others became unexpected heroines of industrial struggle. These representat…
Transborder Migration, Social Reproduction and Economic Development
The Future of Asian Feminisms
(2009). The Future of Asian Feminisms: Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflict and Neoliberalism. Gender, Technology and Development: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 295-308
Intelligent Design?
Development policy, in terms of international development cooperation, as well as the operations of multilateral, bilateral and mainstream non-governmental development agencies, has tended to focus on the material and political outcomes of development with little reference to the religious structures and belief systems which shape the life worlds in which the majority of the inhabitants of poor countries live. This bias should not be interpreted …
Beyond women workers
Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which value chains operate, and the importance of acknowledging that labour markets are themselves gendered institutions which reflect socially constructed divisions o…
The Social Is Political
Feminist political economy has recognized that women's work in global production is a central site for gender analysis and a major issue for re-conceptualizing globalization in a gender equitable manner. But such research has yet to generate appropriate policy proposals that can form the basis for international campaigns to achieve changes in the governance and functioning of the global economy that would contribute to gender equity. This article…
Women, Work and Empowerment in a Global Era
Organising home-based workers in the global economy
This article describes an action‐research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home‐based work in different countries, investigating the ways in which such work is embodied in local or international production chains, and developing a methodology which will facilitate the establishment of sustainable organisations of home‐based workers. The article focuses mainly on Latin America and Eastern Europe, though the project…
International and Comparative Industrial Relations
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
The idea that women's subordinate position stems from a lack of job opportunities, and can be ended by the provision of sufficient job opportunities, is deeply rooted and held by a wide spectrum of opinion, from international development agencies, government bureaux and mainstream Marxists to many women's organizations. Our work in the Workshop on the Subordination of Women in the process of development at the Institute of Development Studies, Su…
New Hope or False Dawn
This article maps the complex and fast-changing terrain of voluntary corporate codes of conduct, self-regulatory measures increasingly adopted by firms as a response to concerns about working conditions in global production chains. It considers their origins, their potentials and weaknesses, and finally their implications for the restructuring of social policy in a globalizing world. Despite there being considerably more rhetoric about codes than…
Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom
This paper sets out a framework for understanding the impacts of the financial crisis and its aftermath that is based on the idea of three interacting spheres: finance, production and reproduction. All of these spheres are gendered and globalised. The gendered impact of the current crisis is discussed in terms of the impact on unemployment, employment protection and security, public sector services, social security benefits, pensions, and the rea…
Gender and Global Restructuring
Gender and Development 19 (2011) DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2011.592656 Marchand, Marianne and Anne Sisson Runyan (eds.) Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances. Second Edition
All Change? Men, Women and Reproductive Work in the Global Economy
Beyond women workers
Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which value chains operate, and the importance of acknowledging that labour markets are themselves gendered institutions which reflect socially constructed divisions o…
Who Cares? Gender, Reproduction, and Care Chains of Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
This study analyzes the challenges facing Burmese women factory workers in Thailand who seek to secure the daily reproduction of their labor power as well as the generational reproduction of their children. It illustrates how the reproduction of workers' labor is crucial for the social reproduction of a global economy in which migration is increasingly central to the changing contours of economic development and accumulation. Based on twenty-four…
Striking similarities
The focus of this article is two significant episodes in British labour politics. The first is the Grunwick strike between 1976 and 1978; the second a dispute at Gate Gourmet that began in 2005. In both disputes, women of South Asian origin were the key actors and their legacy has been constructed through striking imagery as one in which against the odds exotic or passive Others became unexpected heroines of industrial struggle. These representat…
Argentina's Barter Network
Striking lives
This article draws on the narratives of the two groups of South Asian women (SAW) in the UK who took part in industrial disputes some 30 years apart, in order to examine the ways in which they have negotiated their way through their classed, racialized and gendered inclusion in the labour market. The comparison of the Grunwick and the Gate Gourmet disputes and the employment histories of the actors involved in these disputes enables us to explore…
The Social Is Political
Feminist political economy has recognized that women's work in global production is a central site for gender analysis and a major issue for re-conceptualizing globalization in a gender equitable manner. But such research has yet to generate appropriate policy proposals that can form the basis for international campaigns to achieve changes in the governance and functioning of the global economy that would contribute to gender equity. This article…
Renegotiating the Reproductive Bargain
This article argues that Cuba's economic demise following the collapse of the former Soviet Union should be seen as a crisis in reproduction as well as a crisis in consumption and production. Using qualitative field research carried out in 1994 and 1995 in Havana and in the province of Matanzas, the author shows that the commodities and services required for reproduction could no longer be guaranteed through the distribution system of the Cuban s…
Transborder Migration, Social Reproduction and Economic Development
Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
1. Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers * 2. Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies * 3. Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries * 4. Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences * 5. Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care * 6. After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities * 7. Burmese migrant worker…
Cross-border childcare strategies of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand
In discussing the challenges of cross-border childcare faced by migrant workers, most research focuses on ‘distance mothering’, assuming that children remain in the place of origin. In contrast, this article focuses on childcare at the place of destination in the context of migrant Burmese factory workers in Thailand. Since many of these workers are ‘undocumented’, they have few rights in their place of destination. This is especially problematic…
Moving the goalposts
This article posits the argument that the 21st century will witness an assertion of the global relevance of gender in development. It looks at globalization from a gender perspective by mapping out the different aspects of the globalization processes, and viewing each of these aspects through the lens of gender analysis. The economic implications of globalization for women are traced in terms of the employment generated by the expansion of global…
Latin American Women and the New International Division of Labour
Working through exceptional space
This article focuses on the borderland of Thailand with Myanmar and analyzes how Burmese women migrant workers are both victimized - Agamben's homo sacer - by the exceptional space of the borderland, but also are able to actively utilize the opportunities afforded by the particular space of the border to juggle their responsibilities and life options. The article focuses on how women migrant workers arrange their healthcare, childcare and childre…
Women, Work and Empowerment in a Global Era
Organising home-based workers in the global economy
This article describes an action‐research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home‐based work in different countries, investigating the ways in which such work is embodied in local or international production chains, and developing a methodology which will facilitate the establishment of sustainable organisations of home‐based workers. The article focuses mainly on Latin America and Eastern Europe, though the project…
Feminist responses to economic globalisation
In order to challenge unfair international trade rules, it is essential to understand how each of them works. This article presents an overview of the various agreements concerning different kinds of economic activity, which are enforced by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It aims to make these agreements comprehensible to non-economists, so that proposals to make international trade more gender equitable can be understood. The argument goes b…
Bringing it all back home
Introduction
This issue of Gender & Development focuses on migrant women workers in a global economy, seeing their experiences through the lens of feminist analysis. We are making a conscious choice to adopt th
Striking Narratives
This article explores the ways in which dominant narratives and images constructed the industrial dispute that took place between 1976 and 1978 at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories in Britain's capital city, London. Since 1978, this strike has achieved almost mythic status in British labour history, as the moment when the trade unions supported the demands of minority women workers. The authors argue that the dominant narratives and image…
The political economy of social reproduction
Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers
The idea that women's subordinate position stems from a lack of job opportunities, and can be ended by the provision of sufficient job opportunities, is deeply rooted and held by a wide spectrum of opinion, from international development agencies, government bureaux and mainstream Marxists to many women's organizations. Our work in the Workshop on the Subordination of Women in the process of development at the Institute of Development Studies, Su…
Women's Studies
Mary Evans' article on women's studies (Evans, 1982) makes a spirited attempt to defend the practitioners of women's studies within academic institutions, principally those of the tertiary sector, from the accusations that they and their teaching is not feminist, since it is an altemative to political feminist practice, and therefore diminishes the latter, and/or that it is elitist and serves only to further the interests of its protagonists (tea…
Latin American Women and the New International Division of Labour
Questioning Perestroika
At the end of 1989 when I was asked to write a background paper about trends in the world economy and the implications for women in Europe, the scenario seemed manageable. I was able if somewhat tentatively to identify five major trends and to speculate on their implications for women in Europe in the context of the changes in Eastern Europe and the USSR which were beginning to unfold.' But, by post-Gulf War 1991, predictions are no longer feasib…
Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality
Bringing it all back home
NGOs and Cuba
Reporting on a large gathering of international and Cuban NGOs and other agencies, this article explores the issues faced by Cuban society in undergoing rapid economic change; and examines why the New World Order has not led to any significant involvement with Cuba, either by the inter-governmental agencies or by independent NGOs. It describes the roles of State-sponsored bodies in maintaining the major development gains of the last 30 years; and…
Giving women the credit
The Full Circle Project is a response by a women's organisation to the dynamics of women's poverty and economic exclusion in contemporary Britain. The authors emphasise the need for credit provision for women to be seen as only one part of an integrated strategy for poverty reduction
Renegotiating the Reproductive Bargain
This article argues that Cuba's economic demise following the collapse of the former Soviet Union should be seen as a crisis in reproduction as well as a crisis in consumption and production. Using qualitative field research carried out in 1994 and 1995 in Havana and in the province of Matanzas, the author shows that the commodities and services required for reproduction could no longer be guaranteed through the distribution system of the Cuban s…
The political economy of social reproduction
From Export Processing to Erogenous Zones
Moving the goalposts
This article posits the argument that the 21st century will witness an assertion of the global relevance of gender in development. It looks at globalization from a gender perspective by mapping out the different aspects of the globalization processes, and viewing each of these aspects through the lens of gender analysis. The economic implications of globalization for women are traced in terms of the employment generated by the expansion of global…
All Change? Men, Women and Reproductive Work in the Global Economy
Which Men, Why Now? Reflections on Men and Development
Summaries This article interrogates the impulses behind the current interest in men and masculinities within a gender and development framework. It argues that the Women and Development agenda, which was propelled onto the development co?operation stage in the 1970s, was inspired by Second Wave feminism and the anti imperialist and civil rights movements of that era. However, the men and masculinities agenda does not have a parallel political ori…
Women and credit
Credit can be instrumental in equalizing opportunity and alleviating poverty, yet historically men and women have not had the same access. Partly because of this, women have been excluded from many previous economic histories. This book fills a significant gap in exploring the vexed relationship between the women and credit across time and space.Providing examples of credit agencies and initiatives in both the developing and developed world, Wome…
New Hope or False Dawn
This article maps the complex and fast-changing terrain of voluntary corporate codes of conduct, self-regulatory measures increasingly adopted by firms as a response to concerns about working conditions in global production chains. It considers their origins, their potentials and weaknesses, and finally their implications for the restructuring of social policy in a globalizing world. Despite there being considerably more rhetoric about codes than…
Feminist responses to economic globalisation
In order to challenge unfair international trade rules, it is essential to understand how each of them works. This article presents an overview of the various agreements concerning different kinds of economic activity, which are enforced by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It aims to make these agreements comprehensible to non-economists, so that proposals to make international trade more gender equitable can be understood. The argument goes b…
Argentina's Barter Network
The Social Is Political
Feminist political economy has recognized that women's work in global production is a central site for gender analysis and a major issue for re-conceptualizing globalization in a gender equitable manner. But such research has yet to generate appropriate policy proposals that can form the basis for international campaigns to achieve changes in the governance and functioning of the global economy that would contribute to gender equity. This article…
Women, Work and Empowerment in a Global Era
Organising home-based workers in the global economy
This article describes an action‐research project which has the multiple objectives of mapping the range of home‐based work in different countries, investigating the ways in which such work is embodied in local or international production chains, and developing a methodology which will facilitate the establishment of sustainable organisations of home‐based workers. The article focuses mainly on Latin America and Eastern Europe, though the project…
International and Comparative Industrial Relations
Beyond women workers
Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which value chains operate, and the importance of acknowledging that labour markets are themselves gendered institutions which reflect socially constructed divisions o…
Intelligent Design?
Development policy, in terms of international development cooperation, as well as the operations of multilateral, bilateral and mainstream non-governmental development agencies, has tended to focus on the material and political outcomes of development with little reference to the religious structures and belief systems which shape the life worlds in which the majority of the inhabitants of poor countries live. This bias should not be interpreted …
The Future of Asian Feminisms
(2009). The Future of Asian Feminisms: Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflict and Neoliberalism. Gender, Technology and Development: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 295-308
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