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  Unemployment, Poverty and Gender in Urban China: Perceptions and Experiences of Laid Off Workers in Three Chinese Cities

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  Economic reform in China in the 1990s has resulted in large numbers of workers being laid off from state-owned enterprises, particularly women and workers aged over forty. These people have moved from a position of relative privilege, with secure and well-respected jobs with good benefits, to a situation of unemployment, accompanied by loss of status and sometimes poverty.
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.