Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women employees
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Socio-economic Conditions of Women Workers in Textiles, Khandsari, and Sugar Products Industries
Author: Women and Labour in Late Colonial India
Author: Samita SenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Indian Labour Journal
Author: Indian Women (an inner dialogue)
Author: Prof. Indira J. Parikh, Pulin K. GargPublisher: Lieper Publication
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This powerful and timely book explores the inner world of Indian women. it is based on workshops and dialogues which the authors conducted with a very large number of women from all over India and from diverse backgrounds - the poor and the well-to-do, villagers and urbanites, women who work in offices and those who run homes, daughters, wives, mothers and grandmothers. Containing as it does the distilled essence of the innermost feelings of Indian women, this book has an immediacy and a relevance not just for all Indians but for men and women all over the world. The authors trace the journey of women to maturity and the many thresholds they cross on the way. They deal with women's processes of being and becoming and the heritage of folklore, myths and role models which influence and affect these processes. The authors outline five major role models for women which are dominant in Indian society. Tracing the historical loci of these models, the authors argue that even though these models have become out dated given the changing mores and life-styles, Indian women are still expected to conform to them. This clash between role expectations and current realities has created considerable tension for today's woman and is the major source of her pathos. However, while women are at the receiving end of many negative attitudes and constricting stereotypes in Indian society, the authors believe that, in the final analysis, they are often victims of their own restricted vision. They believe that Indian women (as also men) still have to discover a third identity which is neither male nor female but human. This identity encompasses the other two identities and, is a liberating and life-giving force which can revitalise not just women but society at large. This exciting and absorbing book will be of interest to scholars from a wide range of disciplines while being essential reading for all men and women.
The Violence of Development
Author: Karin KapadiaPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781842772072
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Comprises 12 papers which assess the contemporary situation of women in India in four broad domains: the cultural, the social, the political and the economic. Argues that despite apparently positive indicators of progress, particularly education and paid employment, little has changed.
Producing Workers
Author: Leela FernandesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812215974
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Based on a study of working-class politics in the Calcutta jute mills since the 1950s to the present, examines the ways boundaries between class, caste, gender, and community are the products of political processes that unfold through institutional, discursive, and everyday social and cultural practices.
The Violence of Development
Author: (ed.), Karin KapadiaPublisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 938475756X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
“ … the strength of the volume lies in its ability to mesh its diverse theoretical concerns with rich empirical data from all across India …” — Seminar This timely volume brings together the work of some of India’s leading feminist economists, historians, political scientists, journalists and anthropologists to investigate the contemporary situation of women in India. It focuses on four broad domains: the cultural, the social, the political and the economic. The writers argue that despite apparently positive indicators of progress in education and paid employment, women’s status has not improved.
Digest of Indian Labour Research
Author: India. Labour BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
The Indian Labour Year Book
Author: Socio-economic Conditions of Women Workers in Tea Processing, Coffee Curing, Paper and Paperboard, Match Splints and Veneers and Bobbins, Rubber and Plastic Products, Chinaware and Procelainware, Electrical Machinery, Apparatus and Appliances, Electronic Goods and Components (except Manufacture of Radios and T.v.sets) Industries
Author: India. Labour BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description