Abstract
List of tables Acknowledgements List of acronyms and abbreviations Glossary Map: location of Jute mills along river Hooghly Introduction 1. Migration, recruitment and labour control 2. 'Will the land not be tilled?': women's work in the rural economy 3. 'Away from homes': women's work in the mills 4. Motherhood, mothercraft and the Maternity Benefit Act 5. In temporary marriages: wives, widows and prostitutes 6. Working-class politics and women's militancy Select bibliography Index.
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Powered by the California Digital Library University of California draw upon her work to inform their future studies of other social formations during the colonial period
Samita Sen's ambitious study is of women in the Bengal jute industry in late colonial India, by which she means the end of the nineteenth century to independence
She chose the jute industry as the only registered industry that employed any substantial number of women, some twelve to twenty-one percent of the work force from 1897 to 1950
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Powered by the California Digital Library University of California draw upon her work to inform their future studies of other social formations during the colonial period. Title Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry.
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