This paper examines some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a grave and continuing crisis in women’s employment under liberalization led growth. Trends in the...

This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship right to economic and social justice and equality. The class of more privileged educated professionals who might be working...

Introduction -- A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 : introduction / Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore -- Co-operative history : movements and businesses / Mary Hilson -- Origins and models -- Rochdale and beyond : consumer co-operation in Britain before 1945 / Mary...

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives