TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Sen,Samita
TI  - Women and labour in late colonial India : : the Bengal jute industry
SN  - 0521453631
U1  - 331.40954 SEN 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - : Cambridge University Press
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Gender construction
KW  -  social and economic history of colonial India
N2  - Samita 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
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