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Enabling Subjectivities: Economic and Cultural Negotiations—A Gendered Reading of the Handloom Sector and the Special Economic Zone of Kerala
The process of globalisation has unleashed substantial changes in the employment sector. One of the common features of this process has been discussed through the concept of the ‘feminisation of labour’. In India, most scholars have questioned this thesis given the ongoing low work participation rat...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Indian Journal of Gender Studies
2013
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| Online adgang: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004778.pdf |
| Summary: | The process of globalisation has unleashed substantial changes in the
employment sector. One of the common features of this process has
been discussed through the concept of the ‘feminisation of labour’.
In India, most scholars have questioned this thesis given the ongoing
low work participation rates among women. In this article two sites
of labour—one in the traditional sector and the other in the emerging
new labour context—are compared to explain the gendered structures
of the new labour paradigm. In the handloom sector, male workers are
leaving while women continue to work, whereas the special economic
zone emerges with young women-centred jobs. The article argues that
at the micro level, especially in the context of Kerala’s male labour his-
tory, a variation on the feminisation thesis is relevant. The micro spaces
of these women workers must be explored in order to understand
labour and its nuances in contemporary Kerala, with possible lessons
for other spaces as well. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | p.305–334 20(2) |