TY - BOOK ID - 8806088 TI - Recharacterizing restructuring PY - 2002 SN - 9041119353 9786610468195 1417551429 128046819X 9047403193 9781417551422 9789047403197 9789041119353 6610468192 PB - The Hague London Kluwer Law International DB - UniCat KW - Law and economic development. KW - Organizational change. KW - Organizational change - Europe, Eastern. KW - Post-communism. KW - Trade regulation. KW - Women. KW - Organizational change KW - Law and economic development KW - Women KW - Trade regulation KW - Post-communism KW - Management Styles & Communication KW - Management KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic conditions KW - Social conditions KW - Economic aspects KW - Change, Organizational KW - Organization development KW - Organizational development KW - Organizational innovation KW - Postcommunism KW - Regulation of trade KW - Regulatory reform KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Economic development and law KW - Law and development KW - Law and legislation KW - Organization KW - Manpower planning KW - World politics KW - Communism KW - Commercial law KW - Consumer protection KW - Deregulation KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Economic development KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8806088 AB - In the last decade, market-centered economic reforms have been implemented in a wide range of developing and transitional countries under the auspices of the international financial institutions. Whether or not they deliver the promised prosperity, they appear to be associated with widening economic inequality as well as disadvantage for particular social groups, among them women and workers. Recharacterizing Restructuring argues that such effects are neither temporary nor accidental. Instead, efforts to promote growth through greater efficiency inevitably engage distributive concerns. Change in the status of different groups is connected to the process of legal and institutional reform. Part I analyzes the place of law and institutional reform in current economic restructuring policies. Through post-realist legal analysis and institutional economics, it discusses the role of background legal rules in the allocation of resources and power among different groups. Part II traces how disadvantage might result for women in the course of economic reform, through an analysis of the World Bank's proposals for states in transition from plan to market economies. It considers such foundational issues as the place of unpaid work in economic activity, as well as the gendered nature of proposals to re-organize productive activity and the role of the state. ER -