Women, labour and the economy in India : from migrant menservants to uprooted girl children maids / Deepita Chakravarty and Ishita Chakravarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chakravarty, Deepita, author.

Contributor:

Chakravarty, Ishita.

Series:

Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia.

Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employmen--India--West Bengal.

Women.

Women household employees--India--West Bengal.

Women household employees.

Labor market--India--West Bengal.

Labor market.

West Bengal (India)--Economic conditions.

West Bengal (India).

West Bengal (India)--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations, graphs, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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. For family members to invisible essentials : masters, mistresses and their domestic workers

7. The case of Bangladesh.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-36278-0

1-315-66899-8

1-317-36277-2

9781315668994

OCLC:

948603908