Women’s Condition And Family Life Among Agricultural Labourers And Small Farmers In A Punjab Village
This article was first published in the print edition of Manushi Journal. (Issue-11, Jul-Aug 1982)
The present study is an attempt to document some significant aspects of women’s life within the families of agricultural labourers in a Punjab village. A basic assumption is that the lives of the people in a community cannot be correctly understood without finding out how both the labour contributions and the benefits of production are distributed among its members. Traditional economic indicators such as average household income, per capita income, and per capita food consumption, all fail to tell us who actually gets how much of what…