Women Workers in Urban India
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Women Workers in Urban India

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  2. English
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Women Workers in Urban India

About this book

This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employment opportunities have opened up and are constantly expanding for women, but this book interrogates whether their working status is breaking gender stereotypes or reaffirming them. It argues that whether women are working in offices or from home, contributing to the IT sector or labouring as petty producers, they are unable to break out of the gendered codes that place them at the lower rungs of the occupational ladder. More importantly, the hierarchical social order, comprising caste, class and ethnic identities, seems to echo in the gendered structure of the labour market as well. This volume studies the intertwining of work with embedded patriarchal notions of women's places in designated spheres, and the overt and covert processes of resistance that women offer in defining new roles and old ones anew.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107133280
eBook ISBN
9781316674383
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Women Workers in Urban India
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1: Setting the Backdrop
  10. Chapter 2: Women Workers in Urban India and the Cities
  11. Chapter 3: Gendered Vulnerabilities: Work-life Trajectories of Female Domestic Workers in Jaipur
  12. Chapter 4: Occupational Domestication in a Post-Resettlement Context: An Analysis of Women’s Work in Kannagi Nagar, Chennai
  13. Chapter 5: Old Jobs in New Forms: Women’s Experiences in the Housekeeping Sector in Pune
  14. Chapter 6: Persistent Inequalities and Deepened Burden of Work?: An Analysis of Women’s Employment in Delhi
  15. Chapter 7: Spare Change for Spare Time?: Homeworking Women in Banaras
  16. Chapter 8: Gender, Work and Space: Home-based Workers in Garment Industry in Kolkata
  17. Chapter 9: Labour Control and Responses: Women Workers in an Apparel Park in Kerala
  18. Chapter 10: New Urban Economic Spaces and the Gendered World of Work in Kolkata
  19. Chapter 11: Gender Equality and Women’s Employment in the Banking Sector in India
  20. Chapter 12: Women Body Screeners and the Securitization of Space in Indian Cities
  21. Notes on Contributors
  22. Index

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