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Routledge eBooks, Jan 31, 2022
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Oxford Development Studies, Sep 1, 2012
ABSTRACT This article examines how older women’s work in the informal economy contributes to fami... more ABSTRACT This article examines how older women’s work in the informal economy contributes to family, national and global economies. It is argued here that protecting and promoting older women’s livelihoods will not only serve the interests of older women, but will also have much wider social and economic significance. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken over the last two decades in urban South India, the article demonstrates that amongst the poorest families, rather than being dependent on spouse or family, older women are often self-supporting, support husbands and subsidise the incomes of younger relatives. Older women’s work not only helps to reduce family poverty, it is critical to the distribution of agricultural produce in urban areas and supports India’s global competitiveness. The article identifies how state and market responses to liberalisation and globalisation are threatening older women’s livelihoods while failing to provide adequate safety nets for older women or their families.
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Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, May 27, 2016
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IDS Bulletin, Jan 26, 2009
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The European Journal of Development Research, Dec 1, 2000
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Oxford Development Studies, Dec 1, 2006
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Dec 1, 1999
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Bristol University Press eBooks, Mar 2, 2018
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Routledge eBooks, Sep 22, 2017
India is now entering the final stages of transition from a population with high fertility and hi... more India is now entering the final stages of transition from a population with high fertility and high mortality to one with low fertility and low mortality – and is doing so in the context of widespread poverty and under-developed social and infrastructural provision. The rapidly growing population of young adults, the accelerating growth of the older population, and the increasing feminization of old age have important and largely unrecognized implications for the economy, for inter-generational transfers, and for the experience of old age that do not conform with the usual accounts of a rising burden of old-age dependency. Yet most academic and policy interest in India’s shifting population structure focuses on the ‘working generation’, defined as 15–60 years, and of these the focus is on the ‘youth’ who, it is thought, could potentially deliver a ‘demographic dividend’ of rapid economic growth. Old age, in these formulations, is seen (if discussed at all) as an uninterrupted period of dependence. By contrast, the argument here is that older people’s paid and unpaid work is needed in order to realize the demographic dividend and to counter the negative consequences of the shift to low fertility and low mortality. Drawing on mixed-methods field work that spanned two decades, this chapter will demonstrate that older people play a key role in reducing family poverty and in supporting economic growth. It explores what demographic transition means for the multiply deprived urban poor by examining its consequences for slum dwellers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Chennai is one of India’s largest and fastest-growing urban economies and is located in a state with good human-development indicators in comparison with the national average.
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Review of development and change, Jun 1, 1997
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Contributions to Indian Sociology, May 1, 2007
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Routledge eBooks, 1993
Book synopsis: Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficult... more Book synopsis: Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of the ethnographer.
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Ageing & Society, Apr 4, 2012
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SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, Nov 4, 2013
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Population Horizons, Dec 1, 2015
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Ageing & Society, Jan 9, 2012
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Berghahn Books, Mar 1, 2005
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Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Sep 17, 2013
Abstract Book synopsis: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrela... more Abstract Book synopsis: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, ...
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