Author : Madhura Swaminathan
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category :
ISBN : 9788193926963
The book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections that explore conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues; primary and secondary data; and historical perspectives.
Author : V. K. Ramachandran
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781842773161
The Development and Planning Department of the Government of West Bengal held an international conference in Kolkata in 2002, which provided a forum for debate and discussion on new research in the field of agrarian relations in less-developed countries. The papers brought together in this volume were first presented at this conference, and cover a wide range of theoretical issues and empirical experiences. Some address land reform, and others focus on liberalized trade and mobile financial flows. Country case studies concerned with changes in agrarian relations include Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Cuba, China, and Bangladesh; others on South Africa, the Philippines, and sub-Saharan Africa identify land reforms in the contemporary period.
Author : Pratyusha Basu
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 160497625X
India's cooperative dairying program is widely celebrated as an example of successful rural development, yet the meanings of this success have been understood mainly through the pronouncements of national and international development agencies. Within such official narratives, there has been relatively little engagement with the geographies of dairy development, both its place-specific productions through political contests, availabilities of labor, and distributions of agricultural resources, and the unevenness of its outcomes across rural India. This absence is even more surprising given that village-level cooperatives comprise the foundation of India's dairy development program, and the work of women within rural households is continuously invoked as an integral part of the dairy work. This book extends and enriches current understandings of cooperative dairying in India to show both its value to rural communities as well as the limitations of its participatory structures. Combining comparative and ethnographic approaches, explanations for the diverse outcomes of cooperative dairying are provided from the perspective of the people and places directly involved in the everyday reproductions of rural development. This book contributes to existing understandings of rural development and rural geographies in four significant ways. First, by following histories of development from their local origins to their national and international appearances, the global genealogies that are usually attached to development are rendered more complex. Second, by connecting cooperatives to place, the ways in which participation in development reflects local struggles for power and, hence, are structured through local inequalities, is revealed. Third, by linking dairying and agriculture, the continuing importance of resource distributions in shaping the outcomes of rural development is highlighted. Finally, the crucial role of household divisions of labor in the success of village dairy cooperatives is explicated through showing how struggles over the meanings of rural women's work become key to enabling household-level participation in dairying. This book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, including geography, sociology, anthropology, rural studies, development studies, gender studies, and regional studies of India.
Author : Saraswati Raju
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107133289
""Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Provided by publisher"--
Author : Sukhpal Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 981164442X
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 situation and public policy measures needed to revive the economy in the light of the recent initiatives by the state government, including a committee to suggest post-Covid-19 revival strategy. This collection of essays by specialized author/s in her/his/their area of research examines the impact of Covid-19 in the larger context of economic and developmental context of Punjab, ranging from basic developmental transformation analysis to the specific policy issues in each sector and policy domain, including the larger developmental crisis in the context of the regional economy and society of Punjab. The sectors analysed include: agriculture including dairy sector and agricultural markets, industry, services, education, health, besides fiscal, banking, diaspora, gender, governance, and sustainability challenges the state economy faces. It dwells on sector specific issues as well as ways forward for betterment of livelihoods of those engaged, especially farmers and industrial and service sector informal workers.
Author : Reena Patel
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1409493407
Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.
Author : Mr.Sonali Das
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498315003
This paper examines the determinants of female labor force participation in India, against the backdrop of India having one of the lowest participation rates for women among peer countries. Using extensive Indian household survey data, we model the labor force participation choices of women, conditional on demographic characteristics and education, as well as looking at the influence of state-level labor market flexibility and other state policies. Our main finding is that a number of policy initiatives can help boost female economic participation in the states of India, including increased labor market flexibility, investment in infrastructure, and enhanced social spending.
Author : C. Mark Blackden
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821365622
The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and ot.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 900449961X
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. They discuss the institutional and legal histories of regulations for these workers, their modes of organization and resistance, as well as providing new insights on contemporary home-based work in both traditional and developing sectors. Contributors are: Jane Barrett, Janine Berg, Eloisa Betti, Chris Bonner, Eileen Boris, Patricia Coñoman Carrilo, Janhavi Dave, Saniye Dedeoğlu, Laura K Ekholm, Jenna Harvey, Frida Hållander, K. Kalpana, Srabani Maitra, Indrani Mazumdar, Gabriela Mitidieri, Silke Neunsinger, Malin Nilsson, Narumol Nirathron, Åsa Norman, Leda Papastefanaki, Archana Prasad, Maria Tamboukou, Nina Trige Andersen, and Marlese von Broembsen.
Author : Madhuri Nath
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Rural women
ISBN :
Extrait de la couverture : "Rural areas and women are the two separate important areas in developmental perspectives. A special feature of this book ... is that it covers both in an interrelated context in the same volume. The role of rural women workforce in process of rural transformations is the focal theme of the book. The content of the book covers different dimensions viz., demigraphic profile of women workforce in India, occupational dynamics and employement avenues of women and other gender issues related to the theme. What makes the book more meaningful and readable are the ways in which the author suggests integration of rural women workforce in development process. The scope of the book is not limited only to a focus on factors keeping role of rural women at low ebb till recently rather it discusses how the role of rural women in rural transformation may be made more and more important."
