The Lace Makers of Narsapur: Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market

by Maria Mies

A sensitive and groundbreaking study of women, this examination of globalization in India provides a fascinating case study of its effects on female workers in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Originally published in 1982, the book is an important insight into a group dispossessed before the recent economic boom in India. It details the way in which women have been used to produce luxury goods for the Western market while they are not counted as workers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742198147
• ISBN13: 9781742198149
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"