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Socio economic status of women entrepreneurs in handloom sector
The study was conducted on the “Socio Economic Status of Women Entrepreneurs in Handloom Sector”.The Handloom industry in Kerala has a vital role to play in the State economy as well as in the rural employment generation. The handloom industry suffers technological backwardness, and its productivity...
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International Journal of Applied Home Science
2016
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/008024.pdf |
| Summary: | The study was conducted on the “Socio Economic Status of Women Entrepreneurs in Handloom Sector”.The Handloom industry in Kerala has a vital role to play in the State economy as well as in the rural employment generation. The handloom industry suffers technological backwardness, and its productivity is affected despite strenuous labour input. The entrepreneur weaver is the central figure of the economic activity and prime mover of development. Women handloom
workers belong to the socio-economically lower class with their low level of education, peculiar lifestyle, low wages, high physical strain, absence of good living environment and insufficient nutrient intake. They are exposed to unsatisfactory working environment like- long hours of sitting before the looms, lack of leisure, difficulty in utilizing medical and other schemes, stress and strain of work etc. The study is intended (1) to assess the socio economic background of women handloom entrepreneur’s (2)to identify the constraints encountered by the women entrepreneur weavers. The sample of the study consisted of 300 entrepreneur weavers belonging
to Handloom Sector (Thiruvananthapuram District-150, Kannur District-150). Thiruvananthapuram and Kannur Districts of Kerala were purposively selected for conducting the study since the prominent handloom weaving clusters come under these districts. Majority of the entrepreneur weavers had poor facilities available at the work place, no leisure time and
low income. Debt, competition with power looms, and non-recognition by the Government were the common important constraints among Thiruvananthapuram and Kannur entrepreneurs. Delayed payment of money from the buyers and globalization were the other important constraints faced by the Thiruvananthapuram entrepreneurs but lack of encouragement and low profit were the other important constraints faced by Kannur entrepreneurs |
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| Physical Description: | p. 459-469 Volume 3 (11&12), November & December (2016) |