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Women, Labour and the Economy in India : From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (160 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317362784
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women, Labour and the Economy in IndiaDDC classification:
  • 331.40954
LOC classification:
  • HD6190.W47C43 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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: the refugee maids -- 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 -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 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: the refugee maids -- 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 -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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