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Asian Industrial Women Workers in the 1980s

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Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy

Part of the book series: Institute of Social Studies, The Hague ((ISSTH))

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The focus of this chapter is on the changes which have occurred in relation to Asian women workers, particularly in the last decade of the 1980s during which a new women workers’ movement has emerged in the region.

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© 1996 Amrita Chhachhi and Renée Pittin

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Cheng-Kooi, L. (1996). Asian Industrial Women Workers in the 1980s. In: Chhachhi, A., Pittin, R. (eds) Confronting State, Capital and Patriarchy. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24450-8_10

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