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    Women Workers in the Seafood Processing Sector of Kerala, India - Structural Changes Due to Migration
    (2016) Gopal, Nikita; Sruthi, P; Babu, Chacko; Jayalal, Liya
    Till about early 2000, the women labour on the floor level of the factories were entirely from Kerala. The shift in labour profile began to be observed from after this period. Younger women from the fishing households of Kerala are reluctant to take this job as they were under the impression that it has a low social status. Even though the work is carried out in factories, the work is still referred to as ‘peeling‘. The composition of labour has been witnessing a drastic change with migrant workers now occupying the spaces that local women from Kerala once did. The study attempts to understand the composition of labour in this industry and their socio-economic status, especially migrant women labour