Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

by Samita Sen

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Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521453631

ISBN13:9780521453639

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:286 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"

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