Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0415095867
ISBN 13
9780415095860
Category
330-339 Economics
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Pages
256
Subject
Women -- Employment -- Developing countries -- Case studies. Poor women -- Developing countries -- Case studies. Women -- Employment -- Case studies.
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Abstract
Compares the lives of women in the first and third worlds, examining how women have organized forms of production themselves in the struggle towards breaking down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism have built among them.
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Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Case studies
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sheila Rowbotham; Swasti Mitter
ISBN: 0415095859 9780415095853 0415095867 9780415095860 9780203422946 0203422945
OCLC Number: 27770910
Description: x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: On organising women in casualised work : a global overview / Swasti Mitter --
Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1940 / Radha Kumar --
The conditions and organisational activities of women in Free Trade Zones : Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990 / Kumudhini Rosa --
Weaving dreams, constructing realities : the Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in Mexico / Silvia Tirado --
Self-Employed Women's Association : organising women by struggle and development / Renana Jhabvala --
Deindustrialisation and the growth of women's economic associations and networks in urban Tanzania / Aili Mari Tripp --
Strategies against sweated work in Britain, 1820-1920 / Sheila Rowbotham --
Homework in West Yorkshire / Jane Tate.
Responsibility: edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Swasti Mitter.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sheila Rowbotham; Swasti Mitter
ISBN: 0415095859 9780415095853 0415095867 9780415095860 9780203422946 0203422945
OCLC Number: 27770910
Description: x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: On organising women in casualised work : a global overview / Swasti Mitter --
Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1940 / Radha Kumar --
The conditions and organisational activities of women in Free Trade Zones : Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990 / Kumudhini Rosa --
Weaving dreams, constructing realities : the Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in Mexico / Silvia Tirado --
Self-Employed Women's Association : organising women by struggle and development / Renana Jhabvala --
Deindustrialisation and the growth of women's economic associations and networks in urban Tanzania / Aili Mari Tripp --
Strategies against sweated work in Britain, 1820-1920 / Sheila Rowbotham --
Homework in West Yorkshire / Jane Tate.
Responsibility: edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Swasti Mitter.
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