Labour's window on the global commons: Non-wage work and feminist movements in a changing world

This study demonstrates that global economic development is not a process of global convergence that brings higher wage export manufacturing jobs to women who used to toil in the fields. This global economic process is not about gradually equalizing wages or offering expanded "opportunities" to a new generation of girls in the semi-periphery and periphery. It is about establishing new forms of inequality and restratifying world labor. The conclusion suggests that women- and community-centered economic relationships may be the only option for survival and development.