Nikhila Menon

Mobility as Capability (eBook, PDF)

Women in the Indian Informal Economy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides valuable insights on the dynamics of women''s mobility, autonomy and agency in India''s informal labour market.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108883504
• Artikelnr.: 70911480

Autorenporträt

Nikhila Menon is Director of the Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance in the Government of India. She has worked with research organisations and government institutions in India in the areas of development planning, chronic poverty, human development, public finance, and monitoring and evaluation of government employment programmes. Her research interests are gender and employment issues and institutional economics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
List of Figures
1. Transformational Mobility as Capability
2. Reflections on Transformational Mobility, Autonomy and Women's Work
3. Women in 'Kerala Model': Myths and Realities
4. Situating Informal Work by Women in Fisheries in Kerala
5. 'Measuring Mobility' of Women: Unravelling the 'Explicit' and the 'Implicit'
6. Pathways to Transformational Mobility of Women Workers: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis
7. 'Subordinating Self': 'Maneuvering Patriarchy' among Women Workers
8. Self Categorisation, Group Identity and Agency among Women Fish Vendors
9. Transformational Mobility: From Individual to Collective Agency of Informal Women Workers
Bibliography
Index.