Swasti Mitter

Swasti Mitter (22 May 1939 – 1 May 2016)

Life Mitter was born in Baharampur, West Bengal, India on 22 May 1939. Her father, Sasankasekhar Sanyal was a politician and her mother Usha Rani. She was educated at Presidency College and Krishnath College. Against her parents' wishes, she married Partha Mitter in 1960, and they had two children together. Whilst at Brighton, she published two books, Common Fate: Common Bond in 1986, about the poor working conditions of women in export processing zones, and Computer-aided Manufacturing and Women's Employment in 1992. Mitter, S., & Rowbotham, S. (1995). Women encounter technology: Changing patterns of employment in the Third World. London: Routledge. Mitter, S., Pearson, R., Ng, C., & International Labour Organization. (1992). Global information processing: The emergence of software services and data entry jobs in selected developing countries. Geneva: ILO.