Social Mobility Of Female Labour Within Dual Labour Market And Rural Community

Social Mobility Of Female Labour Within Dual Labour Market And Rural Community

Ani Tetiani (Bogor)

Using critical theory to critisize the theory of dual economy by JH Boeke may emerge dynamics of pre-capitalist sector. Social mobility phenomen from pre-capitalist sector to capitalist sector indicates the decreasing of dual economy. Conducting a research on a tea plantation in West Java, Indonesia, the dual economy manifests itself in the dual labour market between labour and management. Female labours stay at the bottom of that industrial hierarchy. Nevertheless, they create ways for mobility especially by enhancing turus (informal network) with management, intergenerational mobility by their children, and their acitivities in religious institution. The social mobility creates new interpretations of female labours’ identity where they gain power through their cliques and families.