Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work
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This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.

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This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.
Autorenporträt
Rina Agarwala is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She publishes and lectures on international development, labor, migration, gender, social movements, and Indian politics. She is the author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignified Discontent in India and the co-author of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia. Jennifer Jihye Chun is Associate Professor in Asian American Studies and the International Institute at University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States and is writing a book on public cultures of protest in South Korea.