Dignity and Daily Bread

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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).

Introduction 1 On organising women in casualised work: a global overview 2 Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1940 3 The conditions and organisational activities of women in Free Trade Zones: Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka, 1970-1990 4 Weaving dreams, constructing realities: the Nineteenth of September National Union of Garment Workers in Mexico 5 Self-Employed Women's Association: organising women by struggle and development 6 Deindustrialisation and the growth of women's economic associations and networks in urban Tanzania 7 Strategies against sweated work in Britain, 1820-1920 8 Homework in West Yorkshire