Women, Labour and the Economy in India

From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

AvDeepita Chakravarty,Ishita Chakravarty

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly. This is found to be much higher in certain parts of India, emerging as the single most important avenue for urban females, surpassing males in the service since the 1980s.By applying an imaginative and refreshing mix of disciplinary approaches ranging from economic models of the household, empirical analysis and literary conventions, this book analyses the changing labour economy in post-partition West Bengal. It explains how and why women and girl children have replaced this traditionally male bias in the gender segregated domestic service industry since the late 1940s, and addresses the question of whether this increase in vulnerable individuals working in domestic service, the growth of the urban professional middle class in the post liberalization period, and the increasing incidences of reported abuses of domestics, in urban middleclass homes in the recent years, are related. Covering five decades of the history of gender and labour in India, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of gender and labour relations, development studies, economics, history, and women and gender studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:362 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415844703

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Deepita Chakravarty is Associate Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India. Ishita Chakravarty is Associate Professor of History at Vidyasagar College, University of Calcutta, India.

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1. Introduction 2. The Backdrop: Partition, Land Reforms and the New Industrial Policy 3. Domesticity vs. Paid Work: Domestic Service in Urban West Bengal 4. For Bed and Board Only: Women and Girl Children Domestic Workers in Post Partition Kolkata 5. When Daughters Migrate and Mothers Stay Back 6. From Family Members to Invisible Essentials: Masters, Mistresses and their Domestic Workers 7. The Case of Bangladesh

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