The global political economy of the household in Asia

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.

• Introduction
• Juanita Elias and Samanthi J. Gunawardana PART 1 THE STATE AND THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY: COMPETITIVENESS, DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY 1. Women Hold up the Anti-Welfare Regime: How Social Policies Produce Social Differentiation in Singapore
• Teo You Yenn 2. The State and the Foreign Relations of Households: The Malaysia-Indonesia Domestic Worker Dispute
• Juanita Elias 3. Armed Resistance, Economic (In)security and the Household: A Case Study of the Maoist Insurgency in India
• Swati Parashar 4. Rural Sinhalese women, Nationalism and Narratives of Development in Sri Lanka's Postwar Political Economy
• Samanthi J. Gunawardana PART 2 THE HOUSEHOLD AS A SITE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION 5. Flexible, Exotic, Unorganized: 'Frontier' Women in Indian cities
• Duncan McDuie Ra 6. Global Householding for Social Reproduction: Vietnamese Marriage Migration to South Korea
• Lee Hyunok 7. Single Women and their Households in Contemporary Japan
• Laura Dales 8. "Because We Have Husbands With Full-time Jobs . . .": The State, the Household and Home Care Work in Japan
• Kaye Broadbent PART 3 THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE GENDERED WORKPLACE 9. It's the (Household) Economy, Stupid! Pension Reform, Collective Resistance and the Reproductive Sphere in Sri Lanka
• Kanchana N. Ruwanpura 10. Vietnamese Migrant Clothing Workers in Malaysia: Global production, Transnational Labour Migration and Social Reproduction
• Vicki Crinis 11. Work, Employment and Welfare of Chinese Rural Women: The Impact of Household Structure and Implications for Social Policy
• Fang Lee Cooke 12. Extreme Jobs and the Household: Work and Care in the New India
• Elizabeth Hill 13. Waste-Recycling and the Household Economy: The Case of the Pune Waste-Pickers Response to the Changing "Rules of the Game"
• Patrick Kilby Conclusions: The Significance of the Household to Asia's Transformation and to Studies of the Global Political Economy
• Samanthi J. Gunawardana and Juanita Elias