Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organizing Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First

Rowbotham, Sheila

ISBN 10: 0415095867 / ISBN 13: 9780415095860

Published by Routledge, 1994

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Softcover in VG condition (light handling, unmarked). 233 pages. [15oz].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organizing Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415095867
• ISBN 13: 9780415095860
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • AAAPRIORITY
  • Economics
  • Women's Studies

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Synopsis

Compares the lives of women in the first and third worlds, examining how women have organized forms of production themselves in the struggle towards breaking down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism have built among them.

About the Author

Sheila Rowbotham has a background in economic and labour history and is the author of several books including Women’s Resistance and Revolution (1973), Women’s Consciousness, Man’s World (1973) and Women in Movement: Feminism and Social Action (Routledge 1993). Swasti Mitter is an economist who has written extensively on homework, women and technology. She has published many books including Common Fate, Common Bond: Women in the Global Economy (1986), and Computer-aided Manufacturing and Women’s Employment: The Clothing Industry in Four EC countries (1992).