01120pab a2200157 454500008004000000100001600040245006800056260000900124300001400133362001600147520066800163650004000831650003900871650001800910773003400928180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMeena Gopal  aDisempowered despite wage work: women workers in beedi industry  c1999  ap.WS12-20  a17 & 23 Apr  aBy employing a system of production using contractors and home-based workers, the beedi industry is able to gain tremendous profit with little inputs in infrastructure and comprehensive benefits to labour. The construction of home workers as housewives and homework as a practice that allows a woman to care for children and perform her household tasks while earning much needed income completely detracts from the fact that not only do women put in long hours to fulfil production targets set by employers but have no idea as to how they arrive at the wage levels they set. Women's subordinate status as workers is built into the production process. - Reproduced  aBeedi industry - India - Tamil Nadu  aWomen workers - India - Tamil Nadu  aWomen workers  aEconomic and Political Weekly