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Domestic days : women, work, and politics in contemporary Kolkata / Samita Sen, Nilanjana Sengupta.
LIBRA HD6072.2.I42 K658 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sen, Samita, author.
- Sengupta, Nilanjana (Programme director), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women household employees--India--Kolkata--Social conditions.
- Women household employees.
- Women household employees--India--Kolkata--Economic conditions.
- Slums--India--Kolkata.
- Slums.
- Women household employees--Government policy--India--West Bengal.
- Women household employees--Economic conditions.
- Women household employees--Social conditions.
- Government policy.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- India--Kolkata.
- India--West Bengal.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 310 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- The profile : work, family, and the settlements
- Migration, settlement, and work
- Domestic workers and the labour market condition, construction, and negotiation
- Working in others' homes : pragmatic intimacy and limits of care
- Marriage and motherhood : negotiating femininity
- Well-being and being well : the happiness quotient
- 'Nowhere to go' : policy, institutionalization, and organization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199461165
- 0199461163
- OCLC:
- 949758915
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