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Dignity and Daily Bread

New Forms of Economic Organising among Poor Women in the Third World and the First

Dignity and Daily Bread compares the lives of women in both developed and undeveloped countries and examines how women have themselves organized forms of production. Covering a wide range of issues and areas, from cotton production in Bombay, to conditions in Mexico and in some of the Far East economies, the contributors begin to break down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism build up among women. The immediacy of these accounts brings to life women's experience in a variety of patriarchal societies, and also serves to underline the book's topicality in a time of particular global economic hardship. Dignity and Daily Bread will make a significant contribution to both women's studies and development studies.

Table of contents
  1. 1. On Organising Women in Casualised Work: A Global Overview
    Swasti Mitter
  2. 2. Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1940
    Radha Kumar
  3. 3. The Conditions and Organisational Activities of Women in Free Trade Zones: Malaysia Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990
    Kumudhini Rosa
  4. 4. Weaving Dreams, Constructing Realities: The Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in Mexico
    Silvia Tirado
  5. 5. Self-Employed Women’s Association: Organising Women by Struggle and Development
    Renana Jhabvala
  6. 6. Deindustrialisation and the Growth of Women’s Economic Associations and Networks in Urban Tanzania
    Aili Mari Tripp
  7. 7. Strategies Against Sweated Work in Britain, 1820-1920
    Sheila Rowbotham
  8. 8. Homework in West Yorkshire
    Jane Tate
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