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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]
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