Hard days and nights: Hardships at work, a lack of support at home, and little or no social security combine to create a bleak future for women fishsellers in Mangalore, India

Thorell, Ellen (2015) Hard days and nights: Hardships at work, a lack of support at home, and little or no social security combine to create a bleak future for women fishsellers in Mangalore, India. Yemaya (50). pp. 14-15. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Mangalore is a port city situated in the west coast state of Karnataka in India. The city hosts both large-scale and small-scale fisheries along its coastline. Traditionally, fishermen catch the product and sell it at a daily auction in the harbour to women vendors, who thereafter transport the goods to the market for commercial sale. The trade starts early in the morning, when the fishermen return to the harbour from their nightly fishing. The women fish vendors therefore also start their day in the early morning and work through the day till their stocks are sold or the sun goes down.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM419
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, India, Karnataka, Women, Social Security, Fish Vendors, Trade, Income, Communication, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 10:25
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 09:38
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/849

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