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Ph.D in
Industrial
Economics,
Department of
Economics,
University of
Bombay
Areas of
Research:
Industrial
Organization,
Labour and
Employment,
Occupational
Health,
Education and
Skill
Development -
From a Gender
perspective
Select
Publications:
"The Trauma of
Wage Employment
and the Burden
of Work for
Women in India:
Evidences and
Experiences"
Working Paper
No. 186, Madras
Institute of
Development
Studies,
Chennai, April
2004
"Human
Development in
Tamil Nadu:
Examining
Linkages",
co-authored,
Economic and
Political
Weekly, Vol
XXXIX, No. 8,
February 21,
2004, pp797-802
"Revisiting the
Cashew Industry
in India:
Combining
Insights from
Value Chain and
Social
Embeddedness
Perspectives"
Working Paper No
3, co-authored,
International
Institute for
Environment and
Development,
London, December
2003
www.iied.org/sarl/research/projects/t3pro01.html
Understanding
Persistent
Poverty in
India, Monograph
[co-authored],
HIVOS,
Bangalore,
November 2003
"Women, Work and
Health: Issues
for
Consideration",
in Khanna, R.,
Shiva, M., and
Gopalan, S., [eds],
Towards
Comprehensive
Women's Health:
Programmes and
Policy, SAHAJ,
Baroda, 2002
"Industrial
Labour Force,
Higher
Education,
Gender and Skill
Formation: Some
Issues", The
Indian Journal
of Labour
Economics, Vol.
45, No. 4,
October-December
2002
"The Violence of
Gender-Biased
Development:
Going Beyond
Social and
Demographic
Indicators", in
Kapadia, K.,
[ed], The
Violence of
Development: The
Politics of
Identity, Gender
and Social
Inequalities in
India, Kali For
Women, New
Delhi, 2002
"Labour-intensive
Industries But
Units Without
Workers:Where
Will ILO's
Social Dialogue
Begin?", in A S
Oberai, A
Sivananthiran
and C S Venkata
Ratnam [ed].
Labour Issues in
Export
Processing Zones
in South Asia,
International
Labour
Organization,
Geneva. 2001
"The Resilience
of Gender
Inequities:
Women and
Employment in
Chennai",
co-authored,
Economic and
Political
Weekly, Vol 34,
Nos; 16 & 17,
April
17-23/24-30,
1999
"The Gendered
Politics of Fuel
in India"
Gender,
Technology and
Development,
Vol.3, No.2,
May-Aug 1999.
"The Knit-wear
Cluster at
Tiruppur. An
Indian
Industrial
District in the
Making?",co-authored,
in Amiya Kumar
Bagchi (ed.)
Economy and
Organization:
Indian
Institutions
under the
Neo-Liberal
Regime, Sage,
1999
"Women's
Education in
Colonial Tamil
Nadu, 1900-1930:
The Coalescence
of Patriarchy
and
Colonialism",
The Indian
Journal of
Gender Studies
Vol.16, No.1,
January-June
1999.
"Failures of
Success:
Tamilnadu's
Demographic
Experience",
Radical Journal
of Health, New
Series. Vol.III,
No.1,
January-March
1998
Work and
Reproductive
Health: A
Hobson's Choice
for Indian
Women', Economic
and Political
Weekly, Vol.32,
No.43, October
25-31 (Review of
Women's
Studies), 1997.
"Prison as
Factory: A Study
of Jail
Manufactures in
the Madras
Presidency"
Studies in
History, January
- June 1995.
'Budgetary
Silences',
Economic and
Political
Weekly, Vol.XXX,
No.22, June 3,
1995.
"Politics of
Population and
Development",
co-authored,
Economic and
Political
Weekly,
Vol.XXIX, No.38,
September 17,
1994.
"Development
Experience(s) in
India: Gendered
Perspectives on
Employment and
Education",
Social
Scientist,
Vol.22, Nos.3-4,
March - April
1994.
"Where are the
Entrepreneurs?
What the Data
Reveal for Tamil
Nadu", Economic
and Political
Weekly, May 28,
1994.
Monograph
entitled:
"Bridging the
Technology Gap:
How Dynamic and
Far Sighted is
the Indian
Corporate
Sector", Reserve
Bank of India,
Bombay July
1993.
"State
Intervention in
Industrialization:
A Case Study of
the Madras
Presidency", The
Indian Economic
and Social
History Review,
No.4,
October-December
1992.
"Technical
Education in the
Madras
Presidency: The
Illusions of a
Policy in the
Making",
Economic and
Political
Weekly, July
25,1992.
"Science and
Technology for
Women: A
Critique of
Policy",
Economic and
Political
Weekly, January
5-12, 1991.
Current Research
Work:
Mapping the
Meaning of
Women's Studies
in Tamil Nadu: A
Survey [in
progress] of
Women's Studies
Courses offered
in Institutions
of Higher
Education in
Tamil Nadu. This
Study is
sponsored by the
Malcolm and
Elizabeth
Adiseshiah
Trust, Chennai
The Interface
between
Education and
Nutrition: An
Examination of
Tamil Nadu's
Noon-cum-Nutritious
meal Programme.
A Study [in
progress]
sponsored by
UNIFEM, Delhi
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