ISSN 0970.0293 ADVISORY EDITORS Ashok Mitra Amalendu Guha Social Irfan Habib Amiya Bagchi Scientist Kishore Theckedath Jacob Eapen Monthly Journal of the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Indian School of Social Sciences Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) VOLUME 15 JUNE j Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) NUMBER 6 1987 ( Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shim la) V K Ramachandran (Madras) Venkatesh Athreya (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD Madhu Prasad Utsa Patnaik R.R. Krishnan D. Raghunandan C. Rajamohan C.P. Chandrasekhar MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad EDITOR CONTENTS Prabhat Patnaik EDITORIAL OFFICE Editorial Note 1 423, V P House, Workers, Urdons and Multinationals New Delhi-110 001 —-G.K. Lieten 3 CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISEMENT B-l. Second Floor LSC, J Block Saket, Class, Gender and Agrarian Change : An Analysis of the State of Female Agricultural Labour in India —Sudha Pai 16 New Delhi-110017 SUBSCRIPTION RATES* Women, Informal Sector and Perspectives on Struggles INLAND —U. Kalpagam 33 3 years : Rs 150 > 2 years : Rs 120 New Opportunities on Old Terms : j Annual :Rs 65 The Garment Industry in India j (Students ; Rs 50) —Maithreyi Krishna Raj 45 Institutions and Libraries (Annual); Rs 100 Issues Regarding the Public Sector Single copy : Rs 6 that Need Public Debate *Rs 3 extra if by cheque —H. K. Ashok Rao 55 FOREIGN BOOK REVIEW (Annual in US dollars) In Defence of India's AirMail : 50 "Marxist Establishment^ —EMS Namboodiripad 67 At tides and review express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.