| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Contents |
Front Cover; About the Author; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the 2012 edition; Preface to the 1982 edition; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Setting -- West Godavari; Population Characteristics and Work Participation; Poverty and Pauperisation in a Rich District; Women's Work Participation in West Godavari; Unemployment; 3. The History of the Lace Industry; Colonial Penetration; The Development of the Lace Industry, 1900-70; The Rise of the Farmer Merchants in the Lace Business; 4. The Lace Industry in 1978; 5. Structure of the Industry; A 'Submerged Economy' and Invisible Producers. |
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Means of Production and the Production ProcessDivision of Work and the Putting-out System; Wages and Wage Systems; Marketing and Marketing Agents; 6. Production and Reproduction Relations; The Setting and Methodology; Case Stories of Lace Producers, Agents, Traders, Exporters; (a) Female Producers: The Lace Makers; (b) Male Non-Producers: Agents, Traders, Exporters; Demographic and Socio-Economic Characteristics of the Lace Makers; (a) Marital Status; (b) Class; (c) Caste; (d) Education; Production Relations; (1) Lace Workers/Exporters; (2) Lace Workers/Agents; (3) Lace Workers/Traders. |
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(4) Agents/ExportersReproduction Relations; Division of Labour Between the Sexes; (1) Sexual Division of Labour within Society; (2) Sexual Division of Labour within the Family; (3) Lace Production and Changes in the Sexual Division of Labour; Women's Work and Labour Time; (a) The Working Day of a Lace Maker; (b) Types of Work; (c) Labour Time; Income and Expenditure; (a) Income; (b) Expenditure; Indebtedness and Pauperisation; 7. Profits and Exploitation; 8. Problems of Organisation; The Lace Workers' Consciousness; The Possibility of Forming a Society; The Role of the Bureaucracy; Our Role. |
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9. ConclusionsSuggestions; Bibliography; Appendix: Adilakshmi's Working Day; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
"The lace makers show the way. The conditions under which they worked never disappeared, as we can see now. Indeed these conditions have returned to the rich countries of the West from where they were exported." From the 2012 Preface The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead they are defined as 'non-working housewive. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women lace makers -- India -- Narsāpur.
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Women lace makers. |
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India -- Narsāpur. |
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Lace and lace making -- India -- Narsāpur.
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Lace and lace making. |
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Sexual division of labor -- India -- Narsāpur.
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Sexual division of labor. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mies, Maria. Lace Makers of Narsapur. Chicago : Spinifex Press, ©2012 9781742198149 |
| ISBN |
9781742198088 (electronic book) |
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1742198082 (electronic book) |
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