Integration into a Global Production Network: Impacts on Labour in Tiruppur's Rural Hinterlands

Oxford Development Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 307-321

  Heyer, Judith ^a  

^a SOMERVILLE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; LOCAL ECONOMY; MANUFACTURING; RURAL ECONOMY; VILLAGE;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU; TIRUPUR;

EID: 84883490680     PISSN: 13600818     EISSN: 14699966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2013.805741     Document Type: Article

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