The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia

Introduction; Juanita Elias and Samanthi J. Gunawardana PART 1 THE STATE AND THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY: COMPETITIVENESS, DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY 1. Women Hold up the Anti-Welfare Regime: How Social Policies Produce Social Differentiation in Singapore; Teo You Yenn 2. The State and the Foreign Relations of Households: The Malaysia-Indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute; Juanita Elias 3. Armed Resistance, Economic (In)security and the Household: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurgency in India; Swati Parashar 4. Rural Sinhalese women, Nationalism and Narratives of Development in Sri Lanka's Postwar Political Economy; Samanthi J. Gunawardana PART 2 THE HOUSEHOLD AS A SITE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION 5. Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: 'Frontier' Women in Indian cities; Duncan McDuie Ra 6. Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Marriage Migration to South Korea; Lee Hyunok 7. Single Women and their Households in Contemporary Japan; Laura Dales 8. "Because We Have Husbands With Full-time Jobs . . .": The State, the Household and Home Care Work in Japan; Kaye Broadbent PART 3 THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE GENDERED WORKPLACE 9. It's the (Household) Economy, Stupid! Pension Reform, Collective Resistance and the Reproductive Sphere in Sri Lanka; Kanchana N. Ruwanpura 10. Vietnamese Migrant Clothing Workers in Malaysia: Global production, Transnational Labour Migration and Social Reproduction; Vicki Crinis 11. Work, Employment and Welfare of Chinese Rural Women: The Impact of Household Structure and Implications for Social Policy; Fang Lee Cooke 12. Extreme Jobs and the Household: Work and Care in the New India; Elizabeth Hill 13. Waste-Recycling and the Household Economy: The Case of the Pune Waste-Pickers Response to the Changing "Rules of the Game"; Patrick Kilby Conclusions: The Significance of the Household to Asia's Transformation and to Studies of the Global Political Economy; Samanthi J. Gunawardana and Juanita Elias