Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies, by Peter Custers. London: Zed Books, 2012.

Abstract

This revised and expanded edition of Peter Custers's (1997) book considers the often-sidelined question of women's productive labor in capitalist accumulation. Based on primary data collected on women's work in the factory, in home-based production, and in the technological sector in India, Bangladesh, and Japan, Custers engages with existing literature on the interrelationship between capitalism and patriarchy and exposes the discourses mobilized in the appropriation of women's work in capital accumulation in a rapidly industrializing Asia. This book will be of interest to feminist and Marxist scholars who are engaged in explicating the connections that facilitate the exploitation of women's labor in global industrial production.