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1. Women, Work and Gender Justice in the Global Economy

   By Ruth Pearson

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   This book sets out to understand the role of women in the gendered expansion of the global economy since the 1970s. This involves interrogating the different locations where women have worked in the productive paid economy as well as their less visible labour in the family and the care economy....

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights

   Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy

   Edited by Rhys Jenkins, Ruth Pearson, Gill Seyfang

   The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the areas...

   Published September 30th 2002 by Routledge
3. Feminist Visions of Development

   Gender Analysis and Policy

   Edited by Cecile Jackson, Ruth Pearson

   In the wake of the 4th World Conference on Women this volume brings together leading gender and development scholars who interrogate the last twenty years of work in this area.Feminist Visions of Development throws fresh light on key issues including:* gender and the environment* education *...

   Published June 10th 1998 by Routledge