Foreword - Gerrit Huizer Feminism and the Conceptualisation of Women's Labour in Asian Economies PART ONE: THE DISCOURSE ON WOMEN'S LABOUR IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE The Patriarchal Bias of Working Class Theoreticians Karl Marx and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon The Proletarian Women's Movement in Germany and the Analysis of Women's Work The Legacy of the Second Feminist Wave The Debate on Household Labour Revisited PART TWO: INDUSTRIAL WORK OF WOMEN IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH Homebased Women Labourers in the Garment Industry in West Bengal Wage-Slavery by Women Garment Workers under the Factory System in Bangladesh The German Feminist School and the Thesis of Housewifisation WOMEN'S ROLE AS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS Developmental Feminism and the Analysis of Peasant Women's Labour in Bangladesh The Ecofeminist Discourse and the Work of Rural Women in India The German Feminist School and the Thesis on Subsistence Labour PART THREE: JAPANISATION AND WOMEN'S LABOUR The Japanese Style of Management Compared to Its Percursor, Fordism Women in the Japanese Economy as a Vast Reserve Army of Labour Conclusion Capital Accumulation in Contemporary Asia.