Journal•ISSN: 0970-0293
Social Scientist
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
About: Social Scientist is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Agrarian society. It has an ISSN identifier of 0970-0293. Over the lifetime, 973 publications have been published receiving 6072 citations.
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TL;DR: Letters From Prison, Letters From Prison, کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Abstract: Letters From Prison , Letters From Prison , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the primary subject of feminist inquiry, i.e., woman, is not a homogeneous category, due to its substantive linkage with caste, class and community factors.
Abstract: Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana put forward a major hurdle for theorising gender as such, by arguing that the primary subject of feminist inquiry, i.e., woman, is not a homogeneous category, due to its substantive linkage with caste, class and community factors. They narrate four streams of movements led by women towards a better society, to highlight the differences of Indian women. As Tharu and Niranjana provide no clues for how this challenge may be faced, we encounter here a pessimistic approach towards theorising Indian feminism that Dalit feminists must themselves overcome.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the Indian experience with respect to women's employment in export-oriented manufacturing industry in the era of globalization and consider the role of social policy in providing work and survival security to women, by first evaluating the effects of state policy, and then considering other attempts to ensure minimum security.
Abstract: This chapter seeks to examine the Indian experience with respect to women’s employment in export-oriented manufacturing industry in the era of globalization. It also considers the role of social policy in providing work and survival security to women, by first evaluating the effects of state policy, and then considering other attempts to ensure minimum security to women workers. The first section sets out some of the issues with respect to the feminization of labour in export-oriented employment, and situates the discussion in the context of the experience of the high-exporting East Asian economies in the 1990s. The evidence pointing to a fall in the share of women in export-oriented manufacturing employment even before the onset of the East Asian crisis is considered, and the possible reasons for it are discussed. With this background, the next section briefly highlights the important trends with respect to aggregate female employment in the Indian manufacturing sector over the 1990s. It is argued that much of the use of female labour in export production in India has been in informal and unorganized workplaces, including home-based work, with associated implications for pay, working conditions and consequently also for social policy. The cases of Export Oriented Units (EOUs) and Export Processing Zones (EPZs) are then taken up in the third section, with specific attention to what such employment has meant for job, material and social security.
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