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Domestic Days
Sen, Samita; Sengupta, Nilanjana
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Description for Domestic Days
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTF; JHMC; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
'Maids' have become an inseparable part of the daily lives of 'middle-class' urban households in India. Despite the fact that increasing numbers of poor women are joining this profession, very little has been written about them, especially the part-time domestic workers, each of whom services a number of households at a time. They are not accorded their rightful status as workers either by the employers, their own families, the Government or traditional trade unions. Isolated in the privacy of employers' homes, the problem of recognizing their work or organizing them is the same as for women isolated in their own ... Read more
'Maids' have become an inseparable part of the daily lives of 'middle-class' urban households in India. Despite the fact that increasing numbers of poor women are joining this profession, very little has been written about them, especially the part-time domestic workers, each of whom services a number of households at a time. They are not accorded their rightful status as workers either by the employers, their own families, the Government or traditional trade unions. Isolated in the privacy of employers' homes, the problem of recognizing their work or organizing them is the same as for women isolated in their own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199461165
SKU
V9780199461165
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Ref
99-12
About Sen, Samita; Sengupta, Nilanjana
Samita Sen is Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Nilanjana Sengupta is Assistant Professor at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Reviews for Domestic Days
Domestic days provides a welcome addition to the literature on domestic labour in India, and will be of interest to scholars and students from a range of disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, gender studies, and South Asian studies.
Lauren Wilks, Contemporary South Asia
Lauren Wilks, Contemporary South Asia