Social Reproduction and the Agrarian Question of Women’s Labour in India
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Date
2016
Authors
Naidu, Sirisha C.
Ossome, Lyn
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Publisher
Journal of Political Economy
Abstract
Using a social reproduction framework, this article explores how
reproduction of rural working class households is rearticulated to
capitalist production in India. Our analysis of the conditions in India
reveals that the interaction of three institutions—market, state and
household—has imposed the burden of reproduction on women. In
turn, women’s work is dependent on private and common lands. This
link, between the role of women’s unpaid labour in reproducing rural
households and the fact that this work remains largely dependent on
land, constitutes a failure of the Indian economy to provide decent livelihoods.
It also reasserts gender equity as a contemporary and unresolved
question in the midst of India’s agrarian transition and underscores the
importance of instituting agrarian reforms and state intervention at
levels sufficient for social reproduction.
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Keywords
Social reproduction, Gender, Land and labour, Domestic economies
Citation
Naidu, S. C., & Ossome, L. (2016). Social reproduction and the agrarian question of women’s labour in India. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 5(1), 50-76. DOI: 10.1177/2277976016658737