Worker identity, agency and economic development: womens empowerment in the Indian informal economy
Hill, Elizabeth
Worker identity, agency and economic development: womens empowerment in the Indian informal economy - New York Routledge 2010 - xi, 210 p. - New political economy .
More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the streets. These workers typically receive very low wages and experience extreme forms of social, economic and political marginalisation. This book examines what types of interventions can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy. Using the case study of the Self Employed Women?s Association, Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development argues that work-life reform for informal women workers has moral and social dimensions, as well as economic. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415566094/)
9780415566094
Informal sector (Economics) - India
Women - India - Economic conditions
Women in development - India
331.40954 / H4W6
Worker identity, agency and economic development: womens empowerment in the Indian informal economy - New York Routledge 2010 - xi, 210 p. - New political economy .
More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the streets. These workers typically receive very low wages and experience extreme forms of social, economic and political marginalisation. This book examines what types of interventions can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy. Using the case study of the Self Employed Women?s Association, Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development argues that work-life reform for informal women workers has moral and social dimensions, as well as economic. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415566094/)
9780415566094
Informal sector (Economics) - India
Women - India - Economic conditions
Women in development - India
331.40954 / H4W6