| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 310 pages) |
| Contents |
The profile : work, family, and the settlements -- Migration, settlement, and work -- Domestic workers and the labour market condition, construction, and negotiation -- Working in others' homes : pragmatic intimacy and limits of care -- Marriage and motherhood : negotiating femininity -- Well-being and being well : the happiness quotient -- 'Nowhere to go' : policy, institutionalization, and organization |
| Summary |
This study is based on the narratives of part-time women domestic workers residing in two slum colonies in Kolkata who talk about their work and lives. By moving continuously between the workplace and the homes of the workers, it talks not only about labour but labouring lives. It also discusses public policy and politics with their historical negligence of this section of workers, as well as the recent attempts to give them voice and visibility |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-297) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women household employees -- India -- Kolkata -- Social conditions
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Women household employees -- India -- Kolkata -- Economic conditions
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Slums -- India -- Kolkata
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Women household employees -- Government policy -- India -- Kolkata
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Slums
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Women household employees -- Economic conditions
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Women household employees -- Social conditions
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India -- Kolkata
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sengupta, Nilanjana, author.
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| ISBN |
9780199087006 |
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0199087008 |
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