Author: Schenk-Sandbergen, Loes
Title: Poverty & Survival. Kudumbi Female Domestic Servants & their Households in Alleppey (Kerala)
Description: New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1988. orig. cloth, dustwrapper. 22x14cm, xii,108,(4) pp, Includes 4pp photoplates, textual maps,charts & tables.. 4pp photoplates,textual maps. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Perspective & Material; Backround & Poverty Indices of Kudumbis; The Work of Household Servants; Coolies & the Organization of the " Unorganized" Sector; More or Less Work: The Survival of the Household; Summary & Conclusions.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Household Servants, Domestic Labor, Female Labour, Kudumbi Caste, Kudumbis, Kerala Sociology, South Asia, India Poverty, Social Anthropology