Land, labour and livelihoods : indian women's perspectives /: indian women's perspectives. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bina Fernandez, Meena Gopal, Orlanda Ruthven.
• Editors: Fernandez, Bina; Gopal, Meena; Ruthven, Orlanda
• Contents: Chapter 1 Against the grain: Indian women negotiate land, labour and livelihoods in the new millennium Bina Fernandez, Orlanda Ruthven and Meena Gopal Section I Owning Land, Disowning Women Chapter 2: Tribal women organising for land rights in Dahod and Panchmahaals, Gujarat Sita Mamidipudi and Sejal Dand Chapter 3: Securing land rights for women: government land allocation in Odisha Sonali Mohapatra Chapter 4: Deserted and widowed women's struggle for land and livelihood: a case from Maharashtra Sneha Bhat Chapter 5: Claiming space, claiming rights: Inheritance and land rights for Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh, India Niti Saxena and Soma K. Parthasarathy Section II Marginalised and stigmatised labour Chapter 6: Female labour in tea plantations: Labour process and labour control Ashmita Sharma Chapter 7: Sex work as livelihood: Women, men, and transgender sex workers in Karnataka Shubha Chacko, Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Gowri Vijayakumar Chapter 8: Nhavi women in Pune city: renegotiating new opportunities for livelihood Archana Zende Section III – Education, mobility and skills Chapter 9: Karma and the myth of the new Indian Super Woman: Missing women in the Indian Workforce Bhavani Arabandi Chapter 10: 'Here, we are addicted to loitering': exploring narratives of work and mobility among migrant women in Delhi Sonal Sharma and Eesha Kunduri Chapter 11: All aboard the Job Train: Government-funded training and recruitment in India's apparel industry Orlanda Ruthven Chapter 12: Care (un)skilled: fragmented labour markets in nursing, contemporary Kolkata Panchali Ray Section IV - Collective strategies Chapter 13: Making waste matter: Re-imagining urban renewal and advocating for waste-pickers' right to a dignified livelihood Sohnee Harshey and Pratibha Sharma Chapter 14: Self-Employment, waged or unpaid work: influences on the choices of poor women Dimple Tresa Abraham Chapter 15: Renegotiating patriarchal bargains? Rural women's collective livelihood initiatives in India Bina Fernandez.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 305.420954; Political science; Women -- India -- Social conditions; Women -- India -- Economic conditions; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Regional Studies; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Development studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Economic development; Social change; Sociology; Politics & government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319408651
• Related ISBNs: 9783319408644
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