Woman and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry (Record no. 172327)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780521453639
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Classification number 331.4095414 SEN
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Personal name Sen, Samita.
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Title Woman and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge university press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1999
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 265 p.
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Summary, etc. 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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Topical term or geographic name entry element Women-Employment-India-Bengal
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-08   331.4095414 SEN 153522 2020-02-08 2020-02-08 Books

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