Women and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry / Samita Sen.
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 3.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1999.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 265 pages) : mapContent type: - text
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- Women and labor in late colonial India
- Women -- Employment -- India -- Bengal
- Women -- India -- Bengal -- Social conditions
- Women -- India -- Bengal -- Economic conditions
- Jute industry -- India -- Bengal
- Femmes -- Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) -- Conditions sociales
- Femmes -- Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) -- Conditions économiques
- Jute -- Industrie -- Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Jute industry
- Women -- Economic conditions
- Women -- Employment
- Women -- Social conditions
- India -- Bengal
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- HD6190.B46 S457 1999eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-263) and index.
Preliminaries; Introduction; 1 Migration, recruitment and labour control; 2 'Will the land not be tilled?': women's work in the rural economy; 3 'Away from homes': women's work in the mills; 4 Motherhood, mothercraft and the Maternity Benefit Act; 5 In temporary marriages: wives, widows and prostitutes; 6 Working-class politics and women's militancy; Select bibliography; Index.
In a history of labouring women in Calcutta, the author demonstrates how social constructions of gender shaped their lives and how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued their labour. The study makes a significant contribution to the social and economic history of colonial India.
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