1st Edition
Women, Labour and the Economy in India From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids
160 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly. This is found to be much higher in certain parts of India, emerging as the single most important avenue for urban females, surpassing males in the service since the 1980s.
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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
Biography
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.
