This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies presented here highlight the perpetuation of low wages, inferior social status and low human development of workers in this sector and point out the movement of labour away from this sector and the resultan
K. J. Joseph is Ministry of Commerce Chair Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
P. K. Viswanathan is Associate Professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.