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Lace Makers of Narsapur, The Mies Maria 9781742198149

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The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead they are defined as 'non-working housewives' and their work as 'leisure-time activity'. The rates of pay are far below acceptable levels resulting in accelerating pauperisation and a rapid deterioration in their position in Indian society. The latest 'economic boom' in India was preceded by dispossession of farmers through the 'green revolution' and, alongside it, the dispossession of women, the lace makers of Narsapur in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Maria Mies is a German scholar and activist who lives in Cologne. She is the author of numerous groundbreaking works on women and globalisation.

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"A graphic illustration of how women bear the impact of development processes in countries where poor peasant and tribal societies are being integrated into an international division of labour under the dictates of capital accumulation." Chandra Talpade Mohanty



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ISBN 9781742198149
Author Mies Maria
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Spinifex Press
Publisher Spinifex Press
Weight(grams) 280g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 136mm * 13mm

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