Women workers in urban India / edited by Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana.
"Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Provided by publisher.
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, [2016] Ã2016 |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Setting the Backdrop
- 2. Women Workers in Urban India and the Cities
- 3. Gendered Vulnerabilities: Work-life Trajectories of Female Domestic Workers in Jaipur
- 4. Occupational Domestication in a Post-Resettlement Context: An Analysis of Women's Work in Kannagi Nagar, Chennai
- 5. Old Jobs in New Forms: Women's Experiences in the Housekeeping Sector in Pune
- 6. Persistent Inequalities and Deepened Burden of Work?: An Analysis of Women's Employment in Delhi
- 7. Spare Change for Spare Time?: Homeworking Women in Banaras
- 8. Gender, Work and Space: Home-based Workers in Garment Industry in Kolkata
- 9. Labour Control and Responses: Women Workers in an Apparel Park in Kerala
- 10. New Urban Economic Spaces and the Gendered World of Work in Kolkata
- 11. Gender Equality and Women's Employment in the Banking Sector in India
- 12. Women Body Screeners and the Securitization of Space in Indian Cities.