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Women in the Informal/Unincorporated Textile Sector of India : Gendered Relationship between Proprietorship, Employment and Types of Enterprises Across States
Swami, Meenakshi S - 2016
Women have been associated traditionally as producers and consumers of textiles in India. The textile industry has over … India and women form almost fifty percent of the workforce in the textile sector of India.Given the importance of textile … unincorporated textile enterprises of India. Therefore, this study explores gender based scenario in the unincorporated textile …
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The dynamics of strategic entry and motivations of Yoruba female textile traders in the Balogun market, Lagos state, Nigeria
Yusuff, Olabisi Sherifat - In: Journal of developmental entrepreneurship : JDE ; a … 18 (2013) 2, pp. 1-25
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Managing women : disciplining labor in modern Japan
Faison, Elyssa - 2007
Women's work in Japan's early industrial age -- Keeping "idle youngsters" out of trouble: the 1929 abolition of night work and the problem of free time -- Cultivation groups and the Japanese factory: producing workers, gendering subjects -- Sex, strikes, and solidarity: Tōyō Muslin and the...
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Rethinking "free-trade" practices in contemporary Togo : women entrepreneurs in the global textile trade
Sylvanus, Nina - In: Globalization and transformations of local …, (pp. 174-191). 2008
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Gender, textile work, and Tunisian women's liberation : deviating patterns
Oueslati-Porter, Claire - 2020
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The hat that killed a billion birds : the decimation of world avian populations for women's fashion
Sharp, Arthur G. - 2024
"During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes-and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire...
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Egyptian made : women, work, and the promise of liberation
Chang, Leslie T. - 2024 - First edition
"What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn, immersive portrait of Egyptian society, veteran reporter Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they establish businesses and careers...
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The political economy of domestic violence in a Mumbai slum : an ethnographic analysis
Ghosh, Sreeparna - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 27 (2015) 2, pp. 175-198
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
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