Re: Re: Women & Industrialization (was Re: capitalist patriarchy)

[Michael Hoover <hoov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ong, Aihwa. 1987. _Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline:
> Factory Women in Malaysia._  SUNY Press.
> Ong also provides an impressive analysis of the
> political/cultural stresses that the presence of a large number of yound
> women workers produces in Malaysia
> Best, Colin

See also Gerald Sussman's study of transnational computer and consumer
electronics factories in Malaysia where about 75% of workers are women.

"Electronics, Communications, and Labor: The Malaysian Connection," in
Sussman and John Lent, eds., _Global Productions: Labor in the Making of
the "Information Society"_, Hampton Press, 1998, pp. 111-144.

Ong has recently examined the cultural specificities of global processes
in __Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality_, Duke
University Press, 1999.       Michael Hoover