New PDF release: Women Workers in Urban India

By Saraswati Raju,Santosh Jatrana

ISBN-10: 1107133289

ISBN-13: 9781107133280

This quantity examines the function of girls staff who're becoming a member of the team in city India. Employment possibilities have unfolded and are continuously increasing for ladies, yet this publication interrogates even if their operating prestige is breaking gender stereotypes or reaffirming them. It argues that no matter if ladies are operating in workplaces or from domestic, contributing to the IT zone or labouring as petty manufacturers, they're not able to wreck out of the gendered codes that position them on the reduce rungs of the occupational ladder. extra importantly, the hierarchical social order, comprising caste, category and ethnic identities, turns out to echo within the gendered constitution of the labour industry to boot. This quantity stories the intertwining of labor with embedded patriarchal notions of women's locations in specified spheres, and the overt and covert tactics of resistance that girls supply in defining new roles and previous ones anew.

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