Fashioning Inequality: The Multinational Company and Gendered Employment in a Globalizing WorldElias (government, U. of Manchester) utilizes case study research based on a British garment sector multinational corporation that has invested in Malaysia, to examine how company recruitment and employment strategies intersect with local social divisions based on gender, ethnicity, age, rural-urban |
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Liberal IPE and the Idea of the Progressive Firm | 8 |
Feminist IPE and the Political Economy of Foreign Direct | 26 |
FDI and the Political Economy of Malaysian Development | 46 |
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