 Economic role and status of women: a case study of women in the beedi industry in allahabadI. Z. Bhatty ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization Abstract: ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on the contribution of rural women (woman workers engaged in beedi cigarette tobacco industry) to household income and its impact on their social status in allahabad, India - discusses low income and poverty, female economic roles and attitudes toward having an independent source of income and considers production cooperative and trade union alternatives to the present contractor system of work at home. Bibliography pp. 75 and 76, questionnaire and statistical tables. Keywords: rural women; women workers; tobacco industry; household.; income; social status; low income.; poverty; attitude; production cooperative; work at home; questionnaire; statistical table; femmes rurales; travailleuses; industrie du tabac; ménage; revenu; statut social; faible revenu; pauvreté; attitude; coopérative de production; travail à domicile; questionnaire; tableau statistique; mujeres rurales; trabajadoras; industria del tabaco; hogar; ingreso; condición social; bajos ingresos; pobreza; actitud; cooperativa de producción; trabajo a domicilio; cuestionario; cuadros estadísticos (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in World Employment Programme research working paper. WEP 10, Rural Employment Policy Research Programme Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ilo:ilowps:992091813402676 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization Contact information at EDIRC. |
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