Experience and identity: A historical account of class, caste, and gender among the cashew workers of Kerala, 1930-2000

Lindberg, Anna. Experience and identity: A historical account of class, caste, and gender among the cashew workers of Kerala, 1930-2000.

Malmo, Lund University (Department of History), 2001. xvii + 382 pp. Tables, figures, glossary, appendix, bibliography. ISBN 91-628-4915-8.

Since the 1930s, female cashew workers have constituted a majority of the registered workers in the South Indian State of Kerala. Now numbering some 200,000, these workers have challenged the stereotypical view of Third World women because they were organized into unions, worked in the formal sector, and were...