Samita Sen, Nilanjana Sengupta

Domestic Days

Women, Work, and Politics in Contemporary Kolkata

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is based on narratives of part time women domestic workers residing in two slum colonies of Kolkata who talk about their work and lives. By moving continuously between the workplace and the homes of the workers, this book talks not only about labour but labouring lives. It also discusses public policy and politics with its historical negligence of this section of workers as well as the recent attempts to give them voice and visibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199461165
• ISBN-10: 0199461163
• Artikelnr.: 47866192

Autorenporträt

Samita Sen is Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Nilanjana Sengupta is Assistant Professor at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and acknowledgements
* List of Tables
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Methodology
* 1: The Profile: Work, Family and the Settlements
* 2: Migration, Settlement, and Work
* 3: Labour Market: Constitutive Space of Work, Wages, and other
Benefits
* 4: A Pragmatic Intimacy? Familiality, Dependency, and Social
Subordination
* 5: Marriage and Motherhood: Negotiating Femininity
* 6: Well-being and Being Well: The Happiness Quotient
* 7: 'Nowhere to go': Informality, Social Security, and Organisation
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Glossary
* Index
* About the Authors