Unpaid Work and the Economy

Unpaid Work and the Economy
Author: R. Antonopoulos,I. Hirway
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2009-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780230250550

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This book presents research findings from across the global South that substantively improves our understanding of time-use, poverty and gender equalities, to shed light on why unpaid work is indispensable to economic analysis and effective policy making.

Unpaid Work in the Global Economy

Unpaid Work in the Global Economy
Author: María Ángeles Durán Heras
Publsiher: Fundacion BBVA
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2012
Genre: Globalization
ISBN: 9788492937288

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Esta obra contiene un análisis novedoso de conceptos tan relevantes como trabajo, necesidad, calidad de vida, libertad y coacción. En ella se pone de manifiesto la constante interacción entre trabajo remunerado y no remunerado, entre hogares y Estado, así como la internacionalización de estos trasvases a través de las migraciones.

Global Women s Work

Global Women s Work
Author: Beth English,Mary E. Frederickson,Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781351713474

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This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism. The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.

Unpaid Work and the Economy

Unpaid Work and the Economy
Author: Antonella Picchio
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2005-08-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781134433544

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In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and afforded the same status as paid activities. This book constitutes a rigorous economic analysis with special emphasis on gender issues and covers every conceivable angle of unpaid work and all its ramifications for the modern economy. The unified vision offered by this group of leading contributors ensures this book is a work of excellent quality. There is every chance it will become a seminal study on unpaid work and as such will provide a useful reference for students and academics involved in gender studies, econometrics, and consumption studies.

Gender Time Use and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa

Gender  Time Use  and Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa
Author: C. Mark Blackden,Quentin Wodon
Publsiher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780821365625

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The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and ot.

Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work

Care Work and Care Jobs for the Future of Decent Work
Author: Laura Addati,International Labour Office
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Caregivers
ISBN: 9221316424

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The report analyses the ways in which unpaid care work is recognised and organised, the extent and quality of care jobs and their impact on the well-being of individuals and society. A key focus of this report is the persistent gender inequalities in households and the labour market, which are inextricably linked with care work. These gender inequalities must be overcome to make care work decent and to ensure a future of decent work for both women and men. The report contains a wealth of original data drawn from over 90 countries and details transformative policy measures in five main areas: care, macroeconomics, labour, social protection and migration. It also presents projections on the potential for decent care job creation offered by remedying current care work deficits and meeting the related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Counting for Nothing

Counting for Nothing
Author: Marilyn Waring
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1999-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781442656147

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Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development consultant, writer, and goat farmer, isolates the gender bias that exists in the current system of calculating national wealth. As Waring observes, in this accounting system women are considered 'non-producers' and as such they cannot expect to gain from the distribution of benefits that flow from production. Issues like nuclear warfare, environmental conservation, and poverty are likewise excluded from the calculation of value in traditional economic theory. As a result, public policy, determined by these same accounting processes, inevitably overlooks the importance of the environment and half the world's population. Counting for Nothing, originally published in 1988, is a classic feminist analysis of women's place in the world economy brought up to date in this reprinted edition, including a sizeable new introduction by the author. In her new introduction, the author updates information and examples and revisits the original chapters with appropriate commentary. In an accessible and often humorous manner, Waring offers an explanation of the current economic systems of accounting and thoroughly outlines ways to ensure that the significance of the environment and the labour contributions of women receive the recognition they deserve.

Enabling Women s Economic Empowerment New Approaches to Unpaid Care Work in Developing Countries

Enabling Women   s Economic Empowerment New Approaches to Unpaid Care Work in Developing Countries
Author: OECD
Publsiher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9789264709959

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As part of the OECD Policy Dialogue on Women’s Economic Empowerment, this report focuses on identifying what works to address unpaid care work and sheds light on how governments, donors in the private sector and civil society actors – among others – can design policies to support both those who need care and those who provide care.