The focus is on the growth of export-production in Third World countries and on the massive increase in Third World immigration to the U.S. Both have taken place over the last fifteen years and both contain as one constitutive trait the incorporation of Third World women into waged employment on a scale that can be seen as representing a new phase in the history of women. The article posits that there is a systemic relation between this globalization and feminization of wage-labor.
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