Globalization and Regulation: The New Economy, Gender and Labor Regimes

The paper examines, from a Southeast Asian perspective, the issues of globalization, regulation and gender and labor regimes in relation to the recent papers by Sylvia Walby (2001, 2002). The comments are linked to the conceptual debates and empirical evidence from the UK experience, which I argue, is too narrow a focus if one wants to discuss a process as broad as globalization. The paper then looks at the processes of the modernization of the gender regime and its connections to changing capital/labor relations by re-visiting the nation state, the impact of European Union regionalism and the relative power of the gender regime.