This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization. The historical, political, geographical, and social relationships that female workers have had within the production process and the politics of work are examined to provide an understanding of the positioning of women within the global production system and the international division of employment. Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production aims to give the reader an understanding of new workplace arrangements and the changing gendered patterns of work. The book is relevant to those interested in labour economics, the political economy, and gender studies.

This book explores the restructuring of the labour market and the opportunities that have resulted from economic globalization. The historical, political, geographical, and social relationships that female workers have had within the production process and the politics of work are examined to provide an understanding of the positioning of women within the global production system and the international division of employment. Unheard Voices: Women, Work and Political Economy of Global Production aims to give the reader an understanding of new workplace arrangements and the changing gendered patterns of work. The book is relevant to those interested in labour economics, the political economy, and gender studies.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term 'consumption' is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in a variety of ways. Consumption research asks how earnings and spending are related to each other. More generally, consumption research investigates how people, social classes or societies realize their consumption practices. The question of how consistent preference structures are due to changing empirical backgrounds of time, space and related culture is frequently asked. Which context variables (historical time, geographical framework, cultural background) specify the practice of consumption and in which way do attributes such as age, gender, class, occupation and life-style have their own impacts on the way in which consumption is realised? This book will be of interest to researchers working in economics, sociology, marketing, aesthetics and design, anthropology and communication studies.

Isolation of active ingredients from medicinal plants and characterization can be traced to the beginning of 19th century. Large number of drugs from medicinal plants were discovered and introduced in modern pharmacopoeias during 1850-1950. In the present study, Leaves of 7 species of different medicinal plants named Hygrophila auriculata (Talmakhana) Abru precatorius (Kaincha), Morinaga olifera (Sohanjna), Withania sominifera (Ashwaganda), Cartoon tiglium (Jamal ghota), Solanum nigram (Peelo) and Psoralae corylfolia (Babachi) were put on extraction using extraction buffer. Protein contents of all extracts were determined using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as standard Biuret method. All extracts were purified by ammonium sulphate precipitation and gel filteration chromatography using sephadex G-200 gel. Antibacterial activity of all these extracts before and after ammonium sulphate precipitation and gel filteration fraction having maximum protein contents was assayed.