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Premature Deindustrialization and the Defeminization of Labor

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  • Joshua Greenstein
  • Bret Anderson

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There is growing evidence of two related global processes happening. The late industrializers are deindustrializing at earlier stages of development than their predecessors, and the global trends in the gender composition of manufacturing and industrial employment are evolving. What is less well known is how these two trends are related to one another. Starting from the premise that industrial upgrading has been observed to have a male bias, we test the hypothesis that premature deindustrialization is likely to amplify that bias. For the empirical test and simulation, we use an economy’s global competitive position as a proxy for the deindustrialization regime type. To get to this position, we bring together the work of Nicholas Kaldor, feminist scholarship, and structuralist critiques. The results for sixty-two countries, spanning the years from 1990 to 2013, support our hypothesis that premature deindustrialization is likely to amplify the male bias of industrial upgrading.

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  • Joshua Greenstein & Bret Anderson, 2017. "Premature Deindustrialization and the Defeminization of Labor," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(2), pages 446-457, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:51:y:2017:i:2:p:446-457
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2017.1321397
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    1. Awoa Awoa, Paul & Atangana Ondoa, Henri & Ngoa Tabi, Henri, 2022. "Women's political empowerment and natural resource curse in developing countries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    2. Zuazu-Bermejo, Izaskun, 2022. "Robots and women in manufacturing employment," ifso working paper series 19, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Socioeconomics (ifso).
    3. Joshua Greenstein, 2020. "The Precariat Class Structure and Income Inequality among US Workers: 1980–2018," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 52(3), pages 447-469, September.
    4. Sheba Tejani & David Kucera, 2021. "Defeminization, Structural Transformation and Technological Upgrading in Manufacturing," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 52(3), pages 533-573, May.
    5. Destek, Mehmet Akif & Hossain, Mohammad Razib & Khan, Zeeshan, 2023. "Premature Deindustrialization and Environmental Degradation," MPRA Paper 117737, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Stephen Fox & Yusuf Mubarak & Abdurasak Adam, 2020. "Ecological Analyses of Social Sustainability for International Production with Fixed and Moveable Technologies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-15, October.

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