One of the most important trends of development in today's industry is the increasing internationalization of production This process of interna tionalization has been exceptionally strong in the traditionally women- dominated textile, clothing and electronics industries, which have during the 1970s become the main employers of female workforce also in the new world market factones' in Third World countries. During the 1980s the tightening international competition and the introduction of new technology have caused important changes in the labour process and in the position of semi- skilled women workers in these three branches, which has forced women workers and their trade unions to look for new strategies to defend their vital interests in this process of change The paper presents an empirical research project on Finnish textile, clothing and electronics workers and a proposal for international comparisons on this problem area.
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