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Wood and Woodworking Tools
A handbook
This handbook describes a range of hand tools and simple muscle-powered machinery appropriate to developing countries where abundant labour can offset the problems of limited funds or unreliable sources of energy for mechanization.
Published: 1989
Pages: 112
eBook: 9781780443904
Paperback: 9781853390258
This handbook describes a range of hand tools and simple muscle-powered machinery appropriate to developing countries where abundant labour can offset the problems of limited funds or unreliable sources of energy for mechanization.
| FOREWORD by Famque Ahmed vi | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PREFACE vii | |||
| GLOSSARY viii | |||
| PART ONE: INTRODUCTION by Geoffrey D. Wood 1 | |||
| PART TWO: CASE STUDIES by Bosse Kramsjo 35 | |||
| Greater solidarity for greater power 37 | |||
| Fights for legal control ofkhas resources 41 | |||
| Khas ponds; Housing; Rice paddies; A marsh; | |||
| A deep tubewell; Vested land | |||
| Resistance to exploitation by the rich 62 | |||
| Village touts; False claims for religious purposes; | |||
| A fraudulent sharecropper | |||
| Women fight for their rights 70 | |||
| The life of Amena Begum from misery to dignity; | |||
| Women against divorce; An unregistered marriage; | |||
| Dignity and dowry; Literacy | |||
| Increasing wages and incomes 82 | |||
| Food for work; The daily wage; | |||
| Equal pay for equal work | |||
| Income generation 91 | |||
| Popular theatre for mobilization 95 | |||
| Organizational strength for greater power - | |||
| the way forward 100 |
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