Beyond use value and exchange value, commodities encapsulate semiotic values too. They function as markers of status, domesticity, social discipline, rebelliousness and so on. These functions are contextual, contingent and change over time.
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What is women’s studies? Is it a discipline? Subject? What should a women’s studies' programme connote and what obtains in practice?
This paper examines whether female participation in the labour force enhances the autonomy of women in poor populations.
Recent studies examining British attitudes and ideologies which structured colonial policies towards 'outcaste'2 and 'deviant' groups in indigenous society, have suggested that the groups who were marginalised included those whose activities were conceived of as 'threatening' to new normative def
In India, as per census 1981, around 11 million children in the age group 5-14 are in the labour force as main workers, and another 2.21 million children participate in the labour market