scholarly journals Gendered Exclusion: Domesticity and Dependence in Bengal

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (S5) ◽  
pp. 65-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samita Sen
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Spatial Separation ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Reproductive Activities ◽  
Household System

In Western Europe, industrialization brought far-reaching changes in the family-household system by separating the household from the workplace. Factories, especially, took work away from home and eroded the integrity of the household. The spatial separation between the household and the workplace became the foundation for a conceptual separation between the community and the market. Families were separated from trades, consumption from production, women's activities from men's. These separations, often expressed in the generalized formula of a “private-public” divide, have underscored a thoroughgoing gender division of labour far beyond the original divisions supposed to be rooted in biological reproduction. In industrialized Europe, the working-class household's needs could not be met from the combined economic activities of its members: men, women and children. Rather, the daily bread was to be “won” by individual wage earners and clearly the breadwinners were to be men. In contrast, the home became the site of women's reproductive activities devoid of assignable exchange value. Wives' and daughters' unpaid work was increasingly underwritten by family ideology and was eventually to be covered by the “family wage” paid to husbands and fathers.

Enclosures, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
The Family ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Working People ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Economic Position ◽  
Wage Earners

This article argues against the mainstream view that eighteenth-century common rights were of little significance to working people. Markets in common rights and in their products provide an index of value, and when neither common rights nor derived products were bought and sold, values are imputed from the market prices of similar goods. Since women and children were the primary exploiters of common rights, their loss led to changes in women's economic position within the family and more generally to increased dependence of whole families on wages and wage earners.

New Tools for the Economic Historian

1941 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Single Industry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Wage Earners

Archeologists assure us that organized social life has existed on this earth for about two hundred and fifty thousand years. How millions of people have sought to satisfy their wants over this tremendous span of time is the acknowledged province of economic history. Yet, for lack of records, the gild of economic historians must, for the most part, confine their attention to the last one per cent of this time span; indeed the great bulk of research in economic history is devoted the last one-tenth of one per cent of the archeologists' two hundred and fifty thousand years of social history. Even then the economic historian is utterly overwhelmed with facts. He who essays to write the economic history of the United States, for example, must depict as best can the economic activities of people for more than a hundred and fifty years, farmers, merchants, manufacturers, wage-earners, rentiers; men, women and children in all walks of life, in all variety of occupations. The task is utterly staggering. An army of economic historians would be required to write a complete economic history of the United States; a regiment at least to write a faithful factual account of a single industry.

Economic Status of women working in Pharmaceutical companies of Sikkim, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Subadra Devi Dangal ◽  
Uday Chettri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Personal Property ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Status Of Women

The women have various responsibility in the family because they have to take care of children, family members and also have to involve in the outdoor activities to generate income. Participation on of women in economic activities is high in Sikkim. Women also play a major role in trending activities. So the study has explored the economic status of working women. The study was conducted in Sikkim among the 385 women working in Pharmaceutical companies. The structured survey questionnaire was used to collect the data. The collected data were statistically analysed and presented in the tabular form. The findings show that the majority (50.9%) working women were getting less than Rs. 10000/- per month from the service which was not adequate as their basic household needs. It is found from the that maximum percentage (84.2%) of respondents didn’t have any personal property in their name because of the society of patriarchal system and cultural practices of gender-based division of labour. The study suggests that concerned government and companies should enhance the capacity of working women and should increase their incentives considering the basic needs of workers.

scholarly journals Women and Children First: Appropriated Fiction in the Ten Hours’ Advocate

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Rob Breton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Copyright Laws ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Family Wage ◽  
Children First ◽  
The Way

This article examines interclass strategies to bring about reform in mid-nineteenth century England. It specifically explores the way the Ten Hours’ Advocate, a paper written for the working classes, looked to present itself as a middle-class periodical in order to further the argument for factory reform. In reproducing fiction filched from middle-class periodicals, the Advocate performed its argument for the Factory Bill: that the Bill would ease social tensions, dissipate the Chartist or radical threat, and ensure a “return” to traditional gender roles. The appropriated fiction is mild, rather bland; the non-fictional argument for reform is direct and unapologetic. That the Advocate was opportunistic in the way it made the case for reform is an example of the advantages provided to reformers by the absence of strict copyright laws and by Victorian periodical culture in general. But it also contextualises the debate over the family-wage argument and the working-class role in hardening the Victorian sexual division of labour.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Economic Viability of Agricultural Pellets to Supplement the Current Global Wood Pellets Supply for Bioenergy Production

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2263
Author(s):  
Mahmood Ebadian ◽  
Shahab Sokhansanj ◽  
David Lee ◽  
Alyssa Klein ◽  
Lawrence Townley-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Wood Pellets ◽  
Logistics System ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Biomass Logistics ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Cost

In this study, an inter-continental agricultural pellet supply chain is modeled, and the production cost and price of agricultural pellets are estimated and compared against the recent cost and price of wood pellets in the global marketplace. The inter-continental supply chain is verified and validated using an integration of an interactive mapping application and a simulation platform. The integrated model is applied to a case study in which agricultural pellets are produced in six locations in Canada and shipped and discharged at the three major ports in Western Europe. The cost of agricultural pellets in the six locations is estimated to be in the range of EUR 92–95/tonne (CAD 138–142/tonne), which is comparable with the recent cost of wood pellets produced in small-scale pellet plants (EUR 99–109/tonne). The average agricultural pellet price shipped from the six plants to the three ports in Western Europe is estimated to be in a range of EUR 183–204 (CAD 274–305/tonne), 29–42% more expensive that the average recent price of wood pellets (EUR 143/tonne) at the same ports. There are several potential areas in the agricultural pellet supply chains that can reduce the pellet production and distribution costs in the mid and long terms, making them affordable supplement to the existing wood pellet markets. Potential economic activities generated by the production of pellets in farm communities can be significant. The generated annual revenue in the biomass logistics system in all six locations is estimated to be about CAD 21.80 million. In addition, the logistics equipment fleet needs 176 local operators with a potential annual income of CAD 2.18 million.

Peasantry and the State in Colonial Mexico: A Tentative Comparison with Western Europe

Itinerario ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Raymond Buve
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Home Industries

Peasants is a blanket term for all those who, one way or another are involved in agrarian activities, be it as a labourer, a herdsman, a sharecropper, a tenant, an independent cultivator or in a combination of two or more of these activities. Besides this, one will have to account for part-time income from migratory labour or economic activities as home industries, petty trade, transport or mining. Many peasant societies are internally stratified into richer peasants, sometimes village élites, middle peasants and their poor brethren. In Western Europe and in Mexico most peasants belonged to the latter category. For them Darnton's conclusion, ‘to eat or not to eat, that was die question peasants confronted in their folklore as well as in their daily lives’ was certainly valid, and, out of necessity, these peasants were often looking for additional land or income. They were, for that matter, mobile.

Three-mode analysis of perceptions of economic activities in Eastern and Western Europe

1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla M Veldscholte ◽  
Pieter M Kroonenberg ◽  
Gerrit Antonides
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Mode Analysis ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

Reclaiming their socio-economic space in African culture : Shona Women Cross-Border Traders of Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Global South ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
African Woman ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Cross

The advent of colonialism relegated the traditional African woman to the fringes of the family and society through codified customary law. The Shona women of Zimbabwe were some of the worst affected as they were re-defined as housewives who had to rely on their husbands for the up-keep of the family. However, in as much as globalisation has been accused of having brought some crisis on the African continent and side-lined a significant number of indigenous players, for the African woman in the global south it has brought some form of re-awakening. Globalisation seems to have re-opened the avenues for Shona women and enabled them to re-negotiate their entry back into the economic activities of the family and the public sphere. Despite the general lack of interest in the activities of women and in the strategies used by the poor for survival, it is a known fact that Shona women have become a force to reckon with in terms of cross-border trading in Zimbabwe. This research was prompted by the general hub of activity at the country's borders before the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic and the predominance of women traders who traverse the borders but whose activities have either not attracted enough attention to get their work recognised, or simply because they are taken for granted. Despite such strides, women in the cross-border trading business have instead garnered a certain stigma around them to the extent that the magnitude of their work is largely unrecognised. Yet elsewhere, the significance of women in informal trade is well documented. This study argues that women have not been left out in the global arena of trade. Desai (2009) acknowledges that the global economic openings in the informal sector have afforded women the opportunity to become active players in the markets of the global South. It is the aim of this research to investigate how globalisation has influenced the nature of the activities of Shona women in the cross-border trading business in Zimbabwe and their impact on the social well-being of the family and the nation’s economy at large. The research is largely qualitative in nature. Purposively selected Shona female cross-border traders at the Gulf Complex and Copacabana Market in Harare were interviewed before the COVID pandemic. The study revealed that the transnational activities of these Zimbabwean women are more wide-spread than has been anticipated. The study also revealed that women are unrecognised pillars in the economy of Zimbabwe as reflected in their success stories that have benefited Zimbabwe as a country. The study was informed by Africana Womanist theory which is embedded in African culture with special leaning on Ubuntu/ Unhu philosophy which recognises the complementary roles and partnerships of both men and women in resolving society's challenges.

Women entrepreneurs, individual and collective work–family interface strategies and emancipation

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 198-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise St-Arnaud ◽  
Émilie Giguère
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Organization Of Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Family

Purpose This paper aims to examine the experience of women entrepreneurs and the challenges and issues they face in reconciling the work activities of the family sphere with those of the entrepreneurial sphere. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a materialist feminist perspective and a theory of living work that take into account the visible and invisible dimensions of the real work performed by women entrepreneurs. The methodology is based on a qualitative research design involving individual and group interviews conducted with 70 women entrepreneurs. Findings The results show the various individual and collective strategies deployed by women entrepreneurs to reconcile the work activities of the family and entrepreneurial spheres. Originality/value One of the major findings emerging from the results of this study relates to the re-appropriation of the world of work and organization of work by women entrepreneurs and its emancipatory potential for the division of labour. Through the authority and autonomy they possessed as business owners, and with their employees’ cooperation, they integrated and internalized tasks related to the work activities of the family sphere into the organization of work itself. Thus, not only new forms of work organization and cooperation at work but also new ways of conceiving of entrepreneurship as serving women’s life choices and emancipation could be seen to be emerging.

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