Profiles in poverty: female landless agricultural labour households
By: Rajuladevi, A.K.
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ArticlePublisher: 2000Description: p.474-84.Subject(s): Agricultural workers | Poverty
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: This study attempts to examine the relations of production and household reproduction in two distinctively different regions - wet and dry eco-types - of Tamil Nadu. Caste appears to be a major influence on landless women's participation in rice agriculture. But mainly the play of eco-types in production relation recreated landless households' human poverty. This study challenges the long-held assumption that green revolution wet areas are `green and plentiful' and their primary producers have enough to eat. - Reproduced
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Volume no: 35, Issue no: 6 | Available | AR44376 |
This study attempts to examine the relations of production and household reproduction in two distinctively different regions - wet and dry eco-types - of Tamil Nadu. Caste appears to be a major influence on landless women's participation in rice agriculture. But mainly the play of eco-types in production relation recreated landless households' human poverty. This study challenges the long-held assumption that green revolution wet areas are `green and plentiful' and their primary producers have enough to eat. - Reproduced
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