A study on socio-economic conditions and work life balance of women workers in textile spinning mills

Abstract

Today, in addition to the traditional unpaid labour required for maintaining a household, which involves growing food and securing water and fuel supplies, women increasingly take on paid work outside the home to augment personal and family income. The world over, these dual responsibilities respectively termed "reproductive" and “productive” by social scientists always play a vital role in human economic activity. Although women as workers have traditionally been regarded as dependent adjuncts of their husbands, partners on closet male kin, the rapid influx of women into labour markets worldwide over the past three decades has become a key factor in the growing independence of women, economically, socially and legally. Increasingly too, their ‘household’ work, long taken for granted, is being acknowledged as a central contribution to society’s wealth.