Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First

by Mitter,Swasti; Mitter,Swasti

• ISBN13: 9780415095853
• ISBN10: 0415095859
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Dignity and Daily Breadcompares the lives of women in both developed and undeveloped countries and examines how women have themselves organized forms of production. Covering a wide range of issues and areas, from cotton production in Bombay, to conditions in Mexico and in some of the Far East economies, the contributors begin to break down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism build up among women. The immediacy of these accounts brings to life women's experience in a variety of patriarchal societies, and also serves to underline the book's topicality in a time of particular global economic hardship.Dignity and Daily Breadwill make a significant contribution to both women's studies and development studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
On Organising Women in Casualised Work	p. 14
Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1940	p. 53
The Conditions and Organisational Activities of Women in Free Trade Zones	p. 73
Weaving Dreams, Constructing Realities	p. 100
Self-Employed Women's Association	p. 114
Deindustrialisation and the Growth of Women's Economic Associations and Networks in Urban Tanzania	p. 139
Strategies Against Sweated Work in Britain, 1820-1920	p. 158
Homework in West Yorkshire	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 218
Name Index	p. 224
Subject Index	p. 226
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