from migrant menservants to uprooted girl children maids
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Chakravarty, Deepita
- Creator
- Chakravarty, Ishita
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- V IND 5 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, arbeidsmarkt, huishoudelijke en zorgberoepen, migratie, meisjes, India, 1950-1999, 20e eeuw, 2000-2009, 21e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- By applying a 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. It explains how and why women and girl children have replaced this traditionally male bias in the gender segregated domestic service industry since the late 1940s, and addresses the question of whether this increase in vulnerable individuals working in domestic service, the growth of the urban professional middle class in the post liberalization period, and the increasing incidences of reported abuses of domestics, in urban middleclass homes in the recent years, are related. In this publication five decades of the history of gender and labour in India are covered.