Lourdes Beneria studies the ways in which current economic restructuring affects changing employment dynamics and labor contracts, both in formal and informal employment. Using a gender perspective as well as an economic one, she focuses on the tendency for "core firms" to shift production to "periphery firms" and on the growing labor market insecurity.

Hosted by: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Center for International Business Education and Research, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Economics, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Kinesiology, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Council, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Institute of Government and Political Affairs, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Program for Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, School of Social Work, Women's Studies Program