Land, Labour and Livelihoods: Indian Women's Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783319822044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Bina Fernandez; Meena Gopal; Orlanda Ruthven

Spis treści

 

Chapter 1                    Against the grain: Indian women negotiate land, labour and livelihoods in the new millennium Bina Fernandez, Orlanda Ruthven and Meena Gopal

 

Section I                     Owning Land, Disowning Women

Chapter 2:                   Tribal women organising for land rights in Dahod and Panchmahaals, Gujarat

Sita Mamidipudi and Sejal Dand

Chapter 3:                   Securing land rights for women: government land allocation in Odisha

Sonali Mohapatra

Chapter 4:                   Deserted and widowed women’s struggle for land and livelihood: a case from Maharashtra

Sneha Bhat

Chapter 5:                   Claiming space, claiming rights: Inheritance and land rights for Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh, India

Niti Saxena and Soma K. Parthasarathy

 

Section II                   Marginalised and stigmatised labour

Chapter 6:                   Female labour in tea plantations: Labour process and labour control

Ashmita Sharma

Chapter 7:                   Sex work as livelihood: Women, men, and transgender sex workers in Karnataka

Shubha Chacko, Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Gowri Vijayakumar

Chapter 8:                   Nhavi women in Pune city: renegotiating new opportunities for livelihood

Archana Zende

 

Section III – Education, mobility and skills

Chapter 9:                   Karma and the myth of the new Indian Super Woman: Missing women in the Indian Workforce

Bhavani Arabandi

Chapter 10:                 “Here, we are addicted to loitering”: exploring narratives of work and mobility among migrant women in Delhi

Sonal Sharma and Eesha Kunduri

Chapter 11:                 All aboard the Job Train: Government-funded training and recruitment in India’s apparel industry

Orlanda Ruthven

Chapter 12:                 Care (un)skilled: fragmented labour markets in nursing, contemporary Kolkata

Panchali Ray

 

Section IV - Collective strategies

Chapter 13:                 Making waste matter: Re-imagining urban renewal and advocating for waste-pickers’ right to a dignified livelihood

Sohnee Harshey and Pratibha Sharma

Chapter 14:                 Self-Employment, waged or unpaid work: influences on the choices of poor women

Dimple Tresa Abraham

 

Chapter 15:                 Renegotiating patriarchal bargains?  Rural women's collective  livelihood initiatives in India

Bina Fernandez

O autorze

Bina Fernandez is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on her professional experience in the development sector, her research focuses on gender and social policy. Major research awards include an Australian Research Council Fellowship (2015-2017), a British Academy Small Grant in 2010, the UNDP Human Development Fellowship in 2005, and a Chevening Award in 2001-3.

Meena Gopal is Professor at the Advanced Centre for Women's Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is also a member of the autonomous feminist collective, Forum Against Oppression of Women in Bombay and a queer feminist activist. Her research focuses on social movements, gender and labour, and public health.

Seeking to combine development practice with research and writing, Orlanda Ruthven works on youth employment and labour standards in India. Over the years she has worked with ILO, Impactt, ODI, IDPM and DFID.

Blurb

This book brings together a unique collection of theoretical and empirical analyses of women’s access to land, labour and livelihoods in contemporary India. The authors recognize that gender relations must be viewed intersectionally, along with other social relationships such as caste, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and age, in order to inform an integrated analysis of women’s persistent disadvantage in India. The chapters examine a diverse range of rural and urban livelihoods within sectors such as tea plantations, nursing, hair salons, sex work and waste collection. Documenting the shifts in these sectors in the context of economic liberalization, the authors offer insights on the challenges of development interventions as women negotiate shifts in their livelihood options. Written to engage, the contributions to this book will be of interest both to the general reader and to academics and practitioners in development and gender/women’s studies.