Having indirectly and inadvertently brought Asian women to Britain, the racism of the state
and racism of British society now defines the wider position of Asian women in this country …

'For Asian women', writes Amrit Wilson,'wage labour is a new experience, both baffling and
exciting. Baffling because it is all so new and strange, and exciting because it brings the first …

This paper seeks to raise questions about Indian women's low participation in modern
factory industries on the basis of an examination of the case of the jute industry in Bengal …

This article presents original survey data on differences between Bangladeshis, Pakistanis,
Sikhs and Gujaratis in Britain in terms of women's own employment and their household …

This article explores the lives of Anglo-Indian women in employment in the late colonial
period. In doing so it emphasises the importance of categories in policing the location of …

The thesis examines the relationship between race, gender and class and argues that any
one of these aspects cannot be studied in isolation whilst examining the social position of …

This paper examines some aspects of the lives of women who have migrated from the Indian
sub-continent to Britain. These women constitute an important example of the pervasive …

In the 1950s when Britain was trying to rebuild its war-devastated economy it needed labor.
Long years of imperial history made it turn reflexively to its ex-colonies to fill its needs …

I would like to use these as points of departure to examine the situation of a group of women
factory workers in the South Indian city of Madras, now called Chennai. As India becomes …

Since the early 1980s an export-oriented garments industry has mushroomed in
Bangladesh, with women workers constituting a significant proportion of its wage labour …