Land, Labour and Livelihoods: Indian Women's Perspectives

By Meena Gopal, Orlanda Ruthven, Bina Fernandez

Book Overview

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 wo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319822047
• ISBN13: 9783319822044
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"