01126nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000150005808200220007310000160009524500870011126000480019830000110024652006040025765000200086165000240088165000510090520261026142520.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a0521453631  223a331.40954 SEN  a Sen,Samita 0aWomen and labour in late colonial India b: the Bengal jute industryc/ Samita Sen  aLondonb: Cambridge University Pressc,1999  a265 p.  aSamita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.  aLabor economics  aGender construction  a social and economic history of colonial India