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Title:

Dignity and daily bread : new forms of economic organising among poor women in the Third World and the First / edited by Sheila Rowbotham and Swasti Mitter.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

x, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Poor women--Case studies.
Poor women--Developing countries--Case studies.
Women--Case studies.--Case studies.
Women--Case studies.--Developing countries--Case studies.
Employment--Employment

Other Authors:

Mitter, Swasti, 1939-
Rowbotham, Sheila

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

On organising women in casualised work : a global overview / Swasti Mitter -- Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1940 / Radha Kumar -- The conditions and organisational activities of women in Free Trade Zones : Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990 / Kumudhini Rosa -- Weaving dreams, constructing realities : the Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in Mexico / Silvia Tirado -- Self-Employed Women's Association : organising women by struggle and development / Renana Jhabvala -- Deindustrialisation and the growth of women's economic associations and networks in urban Tanzania / Aili Mari Tripp -- Strategies against sweated work in Britain, 1820-1920 / Sheila Rowbotham -- Homework in West Yorkshire / Jane Tate.

ISBN:

9780415095860 (pbk.)
0415095867 (pbk.)
9780415095853
0415095859

OCLC:

(OCoLC)27770910
(OCoLC)29635695

LCCN:

93007363

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)