TY  - SER
AU  - Shah, Amita
TI  - Changing Pattern of Rural Artisans in Gujarat
PY  - 1998///
KW  - Gujarat
KW  - Rural Artisans
KW  - Artisans
KW  - Policy Imperatives
KW  - Environment
KW  - Policy Imperatives In Changing Environme
KW  - Entrepreneurship Research
KW  - Entrepreneurshiprch
KW  - Third National Seminar On Current Trends
KW  - Biennial Conference Papers
N2  - The foregoing analysis examined the process of transformation of rural unorganised manufacturing sector in which artisan-based activities are important components. In the backdrop of industrial sector growing on the pattern of capitalist form of production, the analysis highlighted certain dynamic changes that have characterized the process of transformation. For instance, it indicated the shift from household to non-household  sector in which the relatively smaller enterprises (i.e. employing less than six workers) are playing significant role especially in terms of employment generation. Over time, these enterprises have also shifted to urban areas and thereby improved their productivity as well as earnings. The next segment in the size-hierarchy (i.e. employing between six to nine workers) does not seem to be expanding so rapidly. This may be because a significant part of the growing enterprises in this segment might have crossed the threshold size and joined the rank of the organised sector. Thus,  the changing size-structure suggests a bi-polar situation where the NDMEs and the organised modern enterprises are growing at the expense of own account enterprises and the DMEs
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