WOMEN AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN INDIA 17 at the Nairobi Conference stated. The new strategy of 'Integration of women into Development' meant in most cases getting women to work in some income-generating activities, integrating women into market oriented production and thus integrating women into the world market economy. It was not meant that women should expand their subsistence production and produce more for their consumption—for their own food and their clothes. Income generation in this approach meant money income. Money income could be generated only if women could produce something which could be sold. People who could buy these products live in western countries. This meant export-oriented production' (AWRAN, 1985). IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON WOMEN WORKERS IN INDIA Women of the third world are seen as the most flexible of the world's labour force. Lower supply price of these women provide a material basis for induction of poor working class women in the export industries such as electronics, garments, sports goods, toys and agro-industries (Moser, 1978). Researches conducted under Indo-Dutch Programme in the eighties revealed that in many of the poorer countries, 'Women are rigorously socialised to work uncomplainingly, under patriarchal control, at any allotted task however dull, labourious, physically harmful or badly paid it may be. There are large number of poor and desperately needy women in many countries looking for work within the narrow confines of a socially imposed, inequitable demand of labour and strict taboos on mobility. The women have become ideal workers for this kind of international division of labour (Banerjee, 1991). In the export-oriented industries of leather goods, toys, food-products, garments, diamond and jewellery female labour is employed at piece-rates in sweatshops or as home-based workers (Banerjee, 1977). In a similar way, the women of ethnic minorities—south Asians, Afro-Caribbeans, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans living in the industrialised countries have been used as cheap labour by world capitalism since the early eighties. They face triple oppression as they are subjected to race and colour prejudices along with patriarchal bias and class exploitation (Mitter, 1986). The relationship between the formal sector and decentralised sector is a dependent relationship where the formal sector has control over capital and markets and the so-called 'informal' sector works as an ancillary (Harriss, 1982). 96% of the female work force in India is in the decentralised sector which has high degree of labour redundancy and obsolescence. These women have less control over their work and no chances for upward mobility due to temporary, routine and monotonous work. In the agrarian sector, the cash-crops—fruits, mushrooms, flowers, vegetables—are replacing the traditional subsistence crop where women had an important role to play. This process has also