The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 State Meets Capital: The Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class -- 2 Marching from the Village: Women’s Struggles between Work and Family -- 3 The Social Body, the Art of Discipline and Resistance -- 4 Becoming...

Job satisfaction has a significant and negative impact on voluntary job quits that may vary in size by gender. If women are more likely than men to quit dissatisfying jobs and therefore interrupt their careers, then gender gaps in earnings, labor force participation and leadership roles may...