Deepita Chakravarty, Ishita Chakravarty

Women, Labour and the Economy in India

From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

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Produktbeschreibung

By applying an imaginative and refreshing mix of disciplinary approaches ranging from economic models of the household, empirical analysis and literary conventions, this book analyses the changing labour economy in post-partition West Bengal. Covering five decades of the history of gender and labour in India, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of gender and labour relations, development studies, economics, history, and women and gender studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415844703
• ISBN-10: 0415844703
• Artikelnr.: 43016576

Autorenporträt

Deepita Chakravarty is Associate Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Women's Studies, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India. Ishita Chakravarty is Associate Professor of History at Vidyasagar College, University of Calcutta, India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Backdrop: Partition, Land Reforms and the New
Industrial Policy 3. Domesticity vs. Paid Work: Domestic Service in Urban
West Bengal 4. For Bed and Board Only: Women and Girl Children Domestic
Workers in Post Partition Kolkata 5. When Daughters Migrate and Mothers
Stay Back 6. From Family Members to Invisible Essentials: Masters,
Mistresses and their Domestic Workers 7. The Case of Bangladesh