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The Lace Makers of Narsapur
Mies Maria
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Description for The Lace Makers of Narsapur
Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages, Bibliography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead they are defined as ‘non-working housewives’ and their work as ‘leisure-time activity’. The rates of pay are far below acceptable levels resulting in accelerating pauperisation and a rapid deterioration in their position in Indian society. The latest ‘economic boom’ in India was preceded by dispossession of farmers through ... Read more
The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead they are defined as ‘non-working housewives’ and their work as ‘leisure-time activity’. The rates of pay are far below acceptable levels resulting in accelerating pauperisation and a rapid deterioration in their position in Indian society. The latest ‘economic boom’ in India was preceded by dispossession of farmers through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781742198149
SKU
V9781742198149
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Ref
99-1
About Mies Maria
Maria Mies is a German scholar and activist who lives in Cologne. She is the author of numerous groundbreaking works on women and globalisation.
Reviews for The Lace Makers of Narsapur
"A graphic illustration of how women bear the impact of development processes in countries where poor peasant and tribal societies are being integrated into an international division of labour under the dictates of capital accumulation." Chandra Talpade Mohanty