Employment and Economic Status of Household Beedi Workers in Andhra Pradesh: A study on living and working conditions

This book is about 'Employment and Economic status of household beedi workers in Andhra Pradesh'. The beedi industry is generally an 'unorganised' sector, although beedi rolling began in the factory sector (in early twentieth century), over the last three decades, the beedi manufacturers have increasingly shifted the work from factories into the households, small unincorporated units or into small work sheds. Mostly the economically and socially backward populations are involved in beedi industry. In India, female beedi workers accounting 75.02 per cent and 25.12 per cent of male workers in the year 2014. Almost all the states dominate female workers in beedi industry except Gujarat. In Gujarat state, male beedi workers accounting 53.19 per cent and female beedi workers account 46.81 per cent in the year 2014. Against this backdrop this book delineates the employment and working conditions of household beedi workers and their problems, legislations and welfare schemes etc among beedi workers located living in Andhra Pradesh, India.