Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521453639
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9780511150265
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society Series v.Series Number 3
Content:
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
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviation -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Migration, recruitment and labour control -- The early jute mills - location and labour supply -- Shift to migrant labour - implications for women workers -- The jute mills' labour strategy -- The 'working-class family' - reproduction of labour -- 2 'Will the land not be tilled?': women's work in the rural economy -- An ideology of domesticity in nineteenth-century Bengal -- Purdah - work and status -- Women's work and migration -- Women's work and the household economy -- Work, purdah and dowry -- 3 'Away from homes': women's work in the mills -- Era of protection - 1881-1919 -- Fewer jobs for women: gender, skills and wages - 1920-29 -- Inside a jute mill -- Only 'light and easy' work for women -- Wages - for men, women and the famil]y -- A widening gender divides: the deoression and rationalisation - 1930-39 -- Some perception of gender - recruitment, housing and purdah -- Recruitment -- Housing -- Seclusion, work and status -- 4 Motherhood, mothercraft and the Maternity Benefit Act -- Motherhood and mothercraft -- Factory work and childbearing -- Strategies of childcare - opium vs. crêches -- Breastfeeding -- The indigenous dai -- Welfare centres and the Maternity Benefit Act -- 5 In temporary marriages: wives, widows and prostitutes -- Widows - remarriage, migration and work -- The 'non-family' jute mill women -- Prostitutes - the criminal and the victim -- Temporary wives - marriage and cohabitation -- 6 Working-class politics and women's militancy -- Trade union movements - the absence of women -- Women in the trade unions - leaders and activists -- Women's strikes - the victim and the adversary -- Select bibliography -- 1. MANUSCRIPTS -- 2. UNPUBLISHED GOVERNMENT REPORTS
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3. PRIVATE PAPERS -- 4. PUBLISHED PAPERS OF ORGANISATIONS -- 5. PUBLISHED GOVERNEMENT REPORTS -- 6. GAZETTEERS -- 7. NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS -- 8. BOOKS, ARTICLES AND THESES -- 9. INTERVIEWS -- INDEX
Additional Edition:
Print version Sen, Samita Women and Labour in Late Colonial India Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c1999 ISBN 9780521453639
Language:
English
Keywords:
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