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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. 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.
It explains how and why women and girl children have replaced this
traditionally male bias in the gender segregated domestic service
industry since the late 1940s, and addresses the question of
whether this increase in vulnerable individuals working in domestic
service, the growth of the urban professional middle class in the
post liberalization period, and the increasing incidences of
reported abuses of domestics, in urban middleclass homes in the
recent years, are related. 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.
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. 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.
It explains how and why women and girl children have replaced this
traditionally male bias in the gender segregated domestic service
industry since the late 1940s, and addresses the question of
whether this increase in vulnerable individuals working in domestic
service, the growth of the urban professional middle class in the
post liberalization period, and the increasing incidences of
reported abuses of domestics, in urban middleclass homes in the
recent years, are related. 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.
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