Women and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry / / Samita Sen
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| Autore: |
Sen Samita
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| Titolo: |
Women and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry / / Samita Sen
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.4/0954/14 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Employment - India - Bengal |
| Women - India - Bengal - Social conditions | |
| Women - India - Bengal - Economic conditions | |
| Jute industry - India - Bengal | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-263) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women and labour in late colonial India |
| ISBN: | 0-511-09206-7 |
| 0-511-05287-1 | |
| 0-511-15026-1 | |
| 0-511-00435-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813351003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; ; 3.