Maria Mies

Lace Makers of Narsapur

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This is a sensitive and ground-breaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies in this book, first published in 1982, looks at the way in which women are dispossessed by producing 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. Before the latest economic boom' in India were a number of proce… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-74219-814-9
EAN: 9781742198149
Produktnummer: 13460393
Verlag: Spinifex Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 244 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.5 cm 284 g
Gewicht: 284
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

Maria Mies is a German scholar, an activist, and the author of Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labor and The Village and the World. She is a professor emerita at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.