Women's Work and Agency in GPNS during Economic Crises: The Case of the Greek Table Grapes Export Sector
结合全球生产网络与女性主义政治经济学，研究经济危机中商业压力与性别关系如何加剧女性工作的不稳定性，并以希腊鲜食葡萄出口部门为例，发现女性通过技能保留了一定能动性。
The expansion of global production networks (GPNs) has shifted women’s roles in agriculture worldwide. Financial and economic crises have intensified commercial pressures, leading to precariousness in women’s work. This has been magnified by government austerity measures. This article combines the GPN and feminist political economy literatures to investigate how the tensions between commercial pressures and gender relations and institutions in a time of economic crisis drive precariousness in women’s work and the implications for women’s adaptive agency. These questions are explored through the case of the table grapes export sector in Greece. The study finds that women farmworkers went back to waged and/or unwaged work in table grapes, but the need for their skilled work enabled them to retain some agency, even as unwaged laborers.