The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia (International Political Economy Series)

The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy. While there is an emergent literature that looks at this relationship, to date, it is fragmented. The contributors consider how the household economy has increasingly been incorporated into development planning and policy making within both states and multilateral development agencies. They examine the social consequences of the tendency to view households as marketizable spaces, and explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region. With case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, they provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household economy to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region (site de l'éditeur) Front Matter....Pages i-xi The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia: An Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Women Hold Up the Anti-Welfare Regime: How Social Policies Produce Social Differentiation in Singapore....Pages 15-27 The State and the Foreign Relations of Households: The Malaysia-Indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute....Pages 28-42 Armed Resistance, Economic (In)Security and the Household: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurgency in India....Pages 43-58 Rural Sinhalese Women, Nationalism and Narratives of Development in Sri Lanka’s Post-War Political Economy....Pages 59-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: ‘Frontier’ Women in Indian Cities....Pages 77-93 Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Women’s Marriage Migration to South Korea....Pages 94-109 Single Women and Their Households in Contemporary Japan....Pages 110-126 ‘Because We Have Husbands with Full-Time Jobs ...’: The State, The Household and Home Care Work in Japan....Pages 127-141 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 It’s the (Household) Economy, Stupid! Pension Reform, Collective Resistance and the Reproductive Sphere in Sri Lanka....Pages 145-161 Vietnamese Migrant Clothing Workers in Malaysia: global Production, Transnational Labour Migration and Social Reproduction....Pages 162-177 Work, Employment and Welfare of Chinese Rural Women: The Impact of Household Structure and Implications for Social Policy....Pages 178-193 Extreme Jobs and the Household: Work and Care in the New India....Pages 194-210 Waste Recycling and the Household Economy: The Case of the Pune Waste-Pickers’ Response to the Changing ‘Rules of the Game’....Pages 211-226 Conclusion: The Significance of the Household to Asia’s Transformation and to Studies of the Global Political Economy....Pages 227-231 Back Matter....Pages 232-270 The household has traditionally been neglected in studies of Asian political economy. While there is an emergent literature that looks at this relationship, to date, it is fragmented. The contributors consider how the household economy has increasingly been incorporated into development planning and policy making within both states and multilateral development agencies. They examine the social consequences of the tendency to view households as marketizable spaces, and explore how the household economy relates to broader structures of industrial production in the region. With case studies on Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and China, they provide a comprehensive picture of the centrality of the household economy to ongoing processes and struggles associated with the continuous economic transformation of the region (site de l'éditeur) Engaging with feminist focussed studies of development, this edited collection places the household at the centre of understandings of the gendered nature of economic development in Asia.