The Subordination of Women and the Internationalisation of Factory Production

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Abstract
Since the late 1960s a new type of wage employment has become available to women in many Third World countries: work in ‘world market factories’ producing manufactures exclusively for export to the rich countries (Hancock, 1980b). In these factories the vast majority of employees are usually young women between the age of fourteen and twenty-four or -five. While these women are only a small proportion of all young women in the Third World, and a minute proportion of all Third World women, theirs is an important case to study, because the provision of jobs for women is often seen as an important way of ‘integrating women into the development process’, a demand which emerged from the United Nations Conference of International Women’s Year in 1975, under the tutelage of various international development agencies.

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