Dignity and Daily Bread

New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First
Herausgeber: Mitter, Swasti; Rowbotham, Sheila

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780415095860
• ISBN-10: 0415095867
• Artikelnr.: 22284168

Autorenporträt

Sheila Rowbotham has a background in economic and labour history and is the author of several books including Women's Resistance and Revolution (1973), Women's Consciousness, Man's World (1973) and Women in Movement: Feminism and Social Action (Routledge 1993). Swasti Mitter is an economist who has written extensively on homework, women and technology. She has published many books including Common Fate, Common Bond: Women in the Global Economy (1986), and Computer-aided Manufacturing and Women's Employment: The Clothing Industry in Four EC countries (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 On organising women in casualised work: a global overview 2
Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1940 3 The conditions and
organisational activities of women in Free Trade Zones: Malaysia,
Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990 4 Weaving dreams, constructing
realities: the Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in
Mexico 5 Self-Employed Women's Association: organising women by struggle
and development 6 Deindustrialisation and the growth of women's economic
associations and networks in urban Tanzania 7 Strategies against sweated
work in Britain, 1820-1920 8 Homework in West Yorkshire