The book titled Women and Work in Rural India, edited by Madhura Swaminathan, Shruti Nagbhushan, and V. K. Ramachandran, and published by Tulika Books and the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS), was released on August 25, 2020.
Most workers in India are dependent on semi-skilled and unskilled manual work for their livelihoods. According to the latest Rural Labour Enquiry Report, about 40 per cent of rural households derived their income from manual work. In a recent research article, Professor Yoshifumi Usami and I have examined trends in rural wage rates over the last 18 years (Das and Usami, 2017).
