ABOUT THE BOOK
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Accounting women’s work has always been shrouded in mystery,
be it the domestic sphere, in the agriculture field or the industrial activity.
Globalisation, revolution in information and communication technologies,
changing patterns of population migration and the role of women has altered the
employment and work structure drastically leading to informalisation of formal
labour. This imposes a severe threat on the survival of more than 90 percent f
the workforce engaged in the unorganized sector of the economy. The major brunt
is faced by the women who have come forward to carry on ths shattered mangles
of the distorted work structure post globalization. The unorganized sector
estimated to contribute 60 percent of the national income and 40 percent of
India’s exports constitute a large section of the women work force. Despite its
contribution, the unorganized sector exists outside the gambit of labour laws
and social security net resulting in mass exploitation of vulnerable communities
particularly women.
The present book highlights the plight of women engaged in
the unorganized manufacturing sector in the major metropolitan centres of India
where informal activities such as home based work, self employed women and
women engaged in own account manufacturing entrepreneurial activities have
replaced formal labour. An attmpt has been made to compare macro level
information with micro level data.
ABOUT Author
fjrigjwwe9r0pp_Books:aboutAuthor
With more than twenty nine years of teaching and research
experience, her fields of specialization include Gender Studies, Human
Development and Human Security with particular reference to India, Afghanistan
and Central Asia. Currently she is teaching at the centre for South, Central,
Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.