List of Tables and Figures
Introduction
Padmini Swaminathan
Section I: Conceptualising Work, Mapping Complexity
1. Women Craft Workers as Security for Family Subsistence
Maithreyi Krishnaraj
2. Dynamics of Sexual Division of Labour and Capital Accumulation: Women Lace-Workers of Narsapur
Maria Mies
3. Work Participation of Rural Women in the Third World: Some Data and Conceptual Biases
Bina Agarwal
4. High Participation, Low Evaluation: Women and Work in Rural Haryana
Prem Chowdhry
5. Tracing a Timeline for Work and Family Research in India
Ujvala Rajadhyaksksha and Swati Smita
Section II: Imparting Visibility, Interrogating Data Systems
6. Muddy Feet, Dirty Hands: Rice Production and Female Agricultural Labour
Joan P. Mencher and K. Saradamoni
7. Valuing Work: Time as a Measure
Devaki Jain
8. Employment and Unemployment Situation in the 1990s: How Good is NSS Data?
Indira Hirway
9. Girl Children in the Care Economy: Domestics in West Bengal
Deepita Chakravarty and Ishita Chakravarty
Section III: Forms of Labour, Conditions of Work: Sectoral Perspectives
10. Women’s Paid Domestic Work and 243
Rural Transformation: A Study in South Gujarat
Uma Kothari
11. Resilience of Gender Inequities: Women and Employment in Chennai
J. Jeyaranjan and Padmini Swaminathan
12. Disempowered despite Wage Work: Women Workers in Beedi Industry
Meena Gopal
13. Development Process and the Status of Women: Tanning Industry in Tamil Nadu
Millie Nihila
14. Feminist Contributions from the Margins: Shifting Conceptions of Work and Performance of the Bar Dancers of Mumbai
Forum against Oppression of Women
Section IV: Critiquing Policies: Implications and Consequences for Work
15. Rural Energy Scarcity and Nutrition: A New Perspective
Srilatha Bathiwala
16. Women’s Work is Never Done: Dairy ‘Development’ and Health in the Lives of Rural Women in Rajasthan
Miriam Sharma with the assistance of Urmila Vanjani
17. Women and Pro-Poor Policies in Rural Tamil Nadu: An Examination of Practices and Responses
J. Jeyaranjan
List of Authors