Worker identity, agency and economic development : women's empowerment in the Indian informal economy / / by Elizabeth Hill
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| Autore: |
Hill Elizabeth <1967-, >
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| Titolo: |
Worker identity, agency and economic development : women's empowerment in the Indian informal economy / / by Elizabeth Hill
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.40954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Informal sector (Economics) - India |
| Women in development - India | |
| Women - India - Economic conditions | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 2 Unravelling the informal sector debate; 3 Reconceptualising labour in the informal sector debate; 4 Exploring a labour-focused strategy for productivity and well-being in the informal economy: Background and method; 5 Mapping 'problems': Work-life experience in the Indian informal economy; 6 Interventions for work-life improvement: The case of the Self Employed Women's Association; 7 The moral dynamics of union membership; 8 Agency, freedom and economic development |
| 9 Public action for economic development10 The politics of economic development; 11 Conclusion - worker identity, agency and economic development; Appendix A: Gujarat: A short profile; Appendix B: SEWA members interviewed for the study; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the streets. These workers typically receive very low wages and experience extreme forms of social, economic and political marginalisation. This book examines what types of interventions?can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy. Using the case study of the Self Employed |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Worker identity, agency and economic development |
| ISBN: | 1-136-95427-9 |
| 1-136-95428-7 | |
| 1-282-65964-2 | |
| 9786612659645 | |
| 0-203-84928-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828401703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
New political economy ; ; 15.