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Community, Seclusion And Female Labor-Force Participation In Madras, India

Vera-Sanso, Penny (1995) Community, Seclusion And Female Labor-Force Participation In Madras, India. Third World Planning Review, 17 (2). pp. 155-167. ISSN 0142-7849. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:19105)

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Abstract

The argument in this paper is that explanations of female labour force participation operating exclusively at the level of the structure of the economy and/or the household fail to see the impact on labour force participation of the intermediate social context in which households are embedded, that is the wider kingroup and community. In the context of two low-income settlements in Madras, whether women and girls work and under what conditions is explained in terms of the articulation of household composition with economic and ideological factors as they are, or are expected to be, interpreted by kin and community.(1)

Item Type: Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: I.T. Ekpo
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2009 16:10 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:57 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/19105 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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