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Lisa A. McGowan illustrates how women workers are bringing their feminism, demands for inclusiveness, new ways of building power, and caring practice into what is a hard-nosed and at times deeply conflicted battle to actualize a broad agenda of economic and labour rights. She shows how they contribute to the implementation of a new economic citizenship: a concept that integrates worker rights, social and economic justice, and gender equality.
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Argues that women's worker rights are core to economic justice
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McGowan, L. Women's Worker Rights, Gender Equality, and Economic Justice. Development 55, 320–324 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2012.61
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