Dignity and Daily Bread - New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in Third World

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Swasti Mitter, Swasti Rowbotham Mitter, S. Rowbotham, Sheila Mitter Rowbotham
• Assisted by: Swasti Mitter (Editor), Mitter Swasti (Editor), Sheila Rowbotham (Editor), Rowbotham Sheila (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.12.1993
• EAN: 9780415095860
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09586-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls