Factory Women in Taiwan

by Lydia Kung

Book Overview

This study describes the first generation of working women in Taiwan, documenting their feelings about employment and addressing the effects of wage-earning on the status and lives of women in general. Although working women enjoy greater mobility and increased peer contact, the study proves that the changes they have experienced are brought about by being away from home, rather than by wage-earning itself. Wage-earning has not empowered women to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231100116
• ISBN13: 9780231100113
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher