Women and Labour in Late Colonial India : The Bengal Jute Industry Hardback
by Samita (University of Calcutta) Sen
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society series
Hardback
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:286 pages, 12 Tables, unspecified; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/05/1999
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- ISBN:9780521453639
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:286 pages, 12 Tables, unspecified; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/05/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521453639
