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Land, Labour and Livelihoods

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40865-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-40864-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 30, 2016

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All Aboard the Job Train: Government-funded Training and Recruitment in India’s Apparel Industry

Ruthven, Orlanda

Pages: 217 –237

[Every month, thousands of young, poor women from eastern India are trained and brought to Bangalore to work in the city’s apparel factories. Written from within a government-funded skill and placement organisation, the chapter reveals the uncertain gain of contemporary employment in a global...
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Care (Un)skilled: Fragmented Markets and Nursing Labour, Contemporary Kolkata

Ray, Panchali

Pages: 239 –260

[Based on an ethnographic study conducted in medical institutions in Kolkata, India, this chapter explores the links between skill designation, labour market hierarchies, wage levels and recognition of certain types of knowledge over others among different grades of nursing personnel. In this...
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Making Waste Matter: Reimagining Urban Renewal and Advocating for Women Waste-Pickers’ Right to a Dignified Livelihood

Harshey, Sohnee; Sharma, Pratibha

Pages: 263 –283

[While ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’ is an environment policy catchphrase in India today; women waste-pickers, who are central to this circular economy of recovery and recycling, are rarely made part of formal municipal waste-disposal systems. Not covered under state-sponsored social protection...
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Self-Employment, Waged or Unpaid Work: Influences on the Choices of Poor Women

Abraham, Dimple Tresa

Pages: 285 –307

[This chapter examines the choices of women who are supported with technical and financial resources from the Kudumbashree programme in Kerala to initiate self-employment via group-owned micro-enterprises. The results indicate that while some remain in the group based self-employment, others—both...
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Renegotiating Patriarchal Bargains? Rural Women’s Collective Livelihood Initiatives in India

Fernandez, Bina

Pages: 309 –329

[Since the 1990s, a range of collective livelihood activities for women have been sponsored by the state and non-governmental organisations in India. This chapter presents case studies of three collective livelihood interventions for rural poor women in India, drawing on exploratory qualitative...

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