Title Embroidering lives : women's work and skill in the Lucknow embroidery industry / Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber.

Publication Info.	Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages) : illustrations, 3 maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	SUNY series in the anthropology of work
	SUNY series in the anthropology of work.
Note	Portions of the text have previously been published by the journal Ethnology, Volume 36(1), Winter 1997, p. 49-65.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
Contents	Chapter 1 Chikan in Historical Context 1 -- Chapter 2 Division of Labor 25 -- Chapter 3 Embroiderers in Social Perspective 59 -- Chapter 4 Work and Wages 87 -- Chapter 5 Skill and Knowledge in Fine Chikan Embroidery 123 -- Chapter 6 Development Schemes and State Patronage 157.
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Subject	Women embroidery industry employees -- India -- Lucknow.
	Women embroidery industry employees.
	India -- Lucknow.
	White work embroidery -- India -- Lucknow.
	White work embroidery.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Wilkinson-Weber, Clare M. Embroidering lives. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1999 0791440877 (DLC) 98016883 (OCoLC)38909553
ISBN	0585089086 (electronic book)
	9780585089089 (electronic book)
	9780791440872
	0791440877
	9780791440889
	0791440885
	0791440877
	0791440885