Ruth Pearson
Abstract Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which va...
Ruth Pearson, Madhura Killedar, Janka Petravic, Jakub Kakietek et al.
BACKGROUND: Child stunting due to chronic malnutrition is a major problem in low- and middle-income countries due, in part, to inadequate nutrition-related practices and insufficient access to services. Limited budgets for nutritional interventions mean that available resources must be targeted in t...
Cecilia Mbae, Moses Mwangi, Naomi Gitau, Tabitha Irungu et al.
Abstract Background In Kenya, typhoid fever and invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis present a huge burden of disease, especially in poor-resource settings where clean water supply and sanitation conditions are inadequate. The epidemiology of both diseases is poorly understood in terms of severity a...
Sarah E. Baum, Laura Jacobson, Ana María Ramírez, Anna Katz et al.
OBJECTIVE: This qualitative study aimed to identify person-centred domains that would contribute to the definition and measurement of abortion quality of care based on the perceptions, experiences and priorities of people seeking abortion. METHODS: We conducted interviews with people seeking abortio...
Sundari Anitha, Ruth Pearson, Linda McDowell
Through a focus on two examples of industrial militancy by South Asian women workers in the UK that took place thirty years apart – the Grunwick and Gate Gourmet disputes - this article explores the effectiveness of the trade union movement in representing minority ethnic women workers. We examine t...
Mick Moore, R.L. Stirrat, Sunanda Sen, Tony Beck et al.
Abstract Southeast Asian Capitalists. Edited by Ruth McVey. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1992. Pp.219. NP. ISBN 0 87727 708 7. Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives. By Johan Pottier. Pp.x + 222; bibliography. London: Routledge, 1993. £40 (hardback); £12.99 (...
Sanjaya Lall, Mark Holmström, Bart van Ark, Michael Lipton et al.
Industry in Developing Countries. By John Weiss. London: Croom Helm, 1988. Pp.xvii + 347. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7099 3654 0. Establishing Support Systems for Industrial Co‐operatives: Case Studies from the Third World. By Peter Abell. Aldershot: Avebury, 1988. Pp.ix + 134. £18.50/ $37. ISBN 0 566 0...