Contributed articles.

"EPW, Tata Institute of Social Sciences."

"Essays from Economic and political weekly"--Cover.

the notion of ˜work and Employment of ˜work and Employment for women is complex. While economic factors predominantly determine a mans participation in employment, the reasons why women work, or do not work, or whether they work part-time or full-time, can be diverse and are often rooted in a complex interplay of economic, cultural, social and personal factors.</br> < br style="text-align: justify; in India, as in most other parts of the world, fewer women participate in employment compared to men. This is the backdrop against which women and work analyses a wide range of issues”from what counts for ˜work to the economic contribution of women to how gendering of work has many significant and related consequences.</br> < br style="text-align: justify; the introduction talks of how oppression faced by wage-earning women is the result of patriarchal norms and capitalist relations of production. It also demonstrates how policies and programmes anchored around data based on National Income accounts and/or labour force surveys seriously disadvantage women in more ways than one.</br> <Divided into four sections, the articles focus on women engaged in varied work”paddy-growers in West Bengal, beedi-roller in Tamil Nadu, laceworkers in Andhra Pradesh and bardancers in Maharashtra of whom live and work in dismal conditions, and earn paltry incomes.</br> < br style="text-align: justify; bringing together well-known sociologists and economists, this volume will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, economics, political Science and Womens studies