Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain investigate how neoliberal globalization generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations; and how a broader global social justice can mitigate the tensions and improve the conditions.

Autorentext
Iris Carla De Jesus, Researcher, Humboldt University, Germany Tommy Kevin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Md Saiful Islam, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Inhalt

1. Globalization of production; with Tommy Kevin 2. Labor, gender and the environment: Analytic framework 3. Globalization and labor rights: Trends and trajectories 4. Women in employment: Local dynamics, global pressures 5. Third world industrialization: Women workers between exploitation and survival 6. Migrant labor: Conditions, contradictions and confrontations; with Iris Carla De Jesus 7. Migrant labor: Conditions, contradictions and confrontations 8. Industrial disasters and implications for labor and gender; with Md Saiful Islam 9. Global treadmill of production and the environment 10. Conclusion: Social justice in the globalization of production