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Lace Makers of Narsapur: Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market (Spinifex Feminist Classics) 2nd Edition
Author(s): Maria Mies (Author)
- Publisher: Spinifex Press
- Publication Date: 1 May 2012
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 1742198147
- ISBN-13: 9781742198149
Book Description
The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not counted as workers or producers in their fragmented workplaces. Instead they are defined as ‘non-working housewives’ and their work as ‘leisure-time activity’. The rates of pay are far below acceptable levels resulting in accelerating pauperisation and a rapid deterioration in their position in Indian society. The latest ‘economic boom’ in India was preceded by dispossession of farmers through the ‘green revolution’ and, alongside it, the dispossession of women, the lace makers of Narsapur in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“A graphic illustration of how women bear the impact of development processes in countries where poor peasant and tribal societies are being ‘integrated’ into an international division of labor under the dictates of capital accumulation.” –Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author, Feminism Without Borders
“This classic breakthrough feminist text was of considerable influence in my own research. So little has changed concerning the valuing and vulnerability of women’s work it resonates as rigorously in 2012. Mies has made significant contributions to feminist scholarship, and [The Lace Makers of Narsapur] is iconic.” –Marilyn Waring, feminist economist and Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merita
About the Author
Maria Mies is a German scholar and activist who lives in Cologne. She is the author of numerous groundbreaking works on women and globalisation.
