Christa Wichterich
Christa Wichterich is a researcher and journalist based in Bonn, Germany. Her most recent book with Spinifex is The Globalized Woman: Reports from a future of inequality. Christa Wichterich is member of Women in Development Europe (WIDE), and for twenty years has worked on development and women’s rights, and since 1995 particularly on the development-trade-and-gender-nexus. She is a regular speaker at international forums and conferences. You can read more about her on her website: https://www.femme-global.de/english
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Christa Wichterich
Globalization creates growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatization in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. It is a process which unifies through market integration and new information technologies, yet separates through growing social polarization. It is also a process which depends on the feminization of employment; rather than liberating women into the workplace, globalization has bred a new underclass of low paid or unpaid women workers. From New York to Phnom Penh, from Moscow to Dakar, we see the devastating effects of the unfettered power of transnational corporations on women’s lives. This book charts that devastation and calls for urgent action – by states across the world and by women themselves.
2000 | ISBN 9781875559671 | Paperback | 218 x 130 mm | 136 pp