Gender, development, and globalization : economics as if all people mattered Lourdes Beneria, Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- In the Beginning There Was WID -- Institutionalization of WID: The UN, CEDAW, and the Equity Agenda -- From WID to WAD to GAD -- The Challenges from Postmodernism and Women of the Global South -- The Rise and Rise of Neoliberal Policies -- Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Policies -- The Case of WDR 2012 -- The Capabilities Approach and Human Development -- Alternative Frameworks of Well-being Require Alternative Measures -- The Human Rights Approach: Economic and Social Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Gender and Economic Analysis: A History -- Neoclassical Approach -- Marxian Approach -- Institutional Economics -- Feminist Economics: A Critique of the Mainstream -- Critique of Homo Economicus -- The Rhetoric of Economics -- What Are We All Striving For? -- What is Economics? -- How Do We Know What We Know? -- A Methodological Convergence -- Gender as a Central Category of Economic Analysis --
Note continued: The Economy as Constituted by Provisioning Activities -- Human Well-being as the Central Measure of Economic Success -- Human Agency is Important -- Ethical Judgments are Integral to Economic Analysis -- Intersectional Analysis -- Gender Inequalities in Provisioning Activities -- Wage Labor -- Beyond Wage Labor -- Asset Ownership, Credit, and Risk -- The Dynamics of the Household -- Macroeconomic Policies, Provisioning, and Well-being -- Critique of Neoliberal Macroeconomic Policies -- Alternative Macroeconomic Policies -- Feminist Ecological Economics -- Conclusions: Towards a More Inclusive Economics -- Notes -- Introduction -- The Rise and Consolidation of Neoliberalism -- Economics and the Davos Man -- Commercialization and Financialization of Everyday Life -- Contested Commodities and Outsourced Lives -- Financialization of Lives -- Concentration of Wealth, Inequality, and Vulnerability -- Concentration of Wealth -- Proletarianization --
Note continued: Widening Income Inequalities -- Global Feminization of Labor -- Manufacturing -- Agriculture -- Services -- Migration -- Human Trafficking -- Discrimination and Patterns of Women's Integration in Paid Employment -- Feminization of Labor and the Dynamics of Gender Relations -- Liberating Effect -- Intensifying Effect -- Reconstitution of Gender Inequalities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Firm Restructuring and Labor Flexibility -- Consequences of Labor Market Restructuring -- Decline of Unions -- Employment and Income Insecurity -- Deterioration of Working Conditions -- Rising Inequality and Social Polarization -- Rising Informality -- Poverty and Vulnerability -- Paths to Improving Working Conditions -- International Labor Standards: The Social Clause -- ILO's Decent Work Agenda -- Corporate Codes of Conduct and Ethical Trading Initiatives -- Worker Organizations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction --
Note continued: Unpaid Work: Statistical Issues and Challenges -- Subsistence Production -- Informal Labor -- Household Work -- Volunteer Work -- The Accounting Project: Making Women's Contributions More Visible -- Why is it Important to Count? -- Objections to the Accounting Project -- Progress Towards Measurement and Valuation of Unpaid Work -- Conceptualizing Work and the Economy -- Theoretical Contributions -- Measurement and Valuation Methods -- What Difference Does Accounting Make? -- Monitoring the Gendered Trends and Patterns of Unpaid Work -- Enhancing Our Understanding of Poverty, Inequality, and Well-being -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Plus ça change... -- The Development Agenda -- The Financial Crisis of 2007-08 -- Gender Integration in Development -- Looking Forward: There Are Alternatives -- Building Bridges, Shaping Agendas for Change -- Policies for Sustainable Economies -- Global Governance Reforms -- Change Requires Social Movements --