More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the streets. These workers typically receive very low wages and experience extreme forms of social, economic and political marginalisation. This book examines what types of interventions can improve the well-being of women working in the Indian informal economy. Using the case study of the Self...
More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic for...
This work makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the Indian informal economy to deliver socio-economics security and well being to workers.
This work makes an important contribution to the fields of development economics, political economy and gender studies analysing the capacity of the I...