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Title: | Masculinisation of the State and the feminisation of poverty |
Author: | Benjamin, Saranel |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity |
Issue: | 48 |
Pages: | 68-74 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | women's employment global economy poverty women |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.2001.9675951 |
Abstract: | This paper enters the debate concerning the effects of globalization from a feminist perspective by arguing that the capitalist-driven outcome of globalization for the North, namely profit, is dependent on the availability of cheap labour in the South. One of its prerequisites is the free mobility of capital and the sourcing of competitive labour that has largely been provided by unemployed women in underdeveloped countries. In other words, capital accumulation is achieved on the backs of poor working women of the South. As a result, globalization has led to the feminization of the global labour force and increasing poverty in the South. This phenomenon is a development of neoliberal policies on which economic globalization is contingent. The argument is illustrated with examples from South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |