Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

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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