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100 _aMeena Gopal
245 _aDisempowered despite wage work: women workers in beedi industry
260 _c1999
300 _ap.WS12-20
362 _a17 & 23 Apr
520 _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
650 _aBeedi industry - India - Tamil Nadu
650 _aWomen workers - India - Tamil Nadu
650 _aWomen workers
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999 _c40645
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