| Women Workers in Urban India Contributor(s): Raju, Saraswati (Editor), Jatrana, Santosh (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107133289 ISBN-13: 9781107133280 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $97.84 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Business & Economics | Women In Business - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 331.409 |
| LCCN: 2016003016 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.28" W x 9.34" (1.23 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Indian - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employment opportunities have opened up and are constantly expanding for women, but this book interrogates whether their working status is breaking gender stereotypes or reaffirming them. It argues that whether women are working in offices or from home, contributing to the IT sector or labouring as petty producers, they are unable to break out of the gendered codes that place them at the lower rungs of the occupational ladder. More importantly, the hierarchical social order, comprising caste, class and ethnic identities, seems to echo in the gendered structure of the labour market as well. This volume studies the intertwining of work with embedded patriarchal notions of women's places in designated spheres, and the overt and covert processes of resistance that women offer in defining new roles and old ones anew. |
Contributor Bio(s): Raju, Saraswati: - Saraswati Raju works at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous books include Colonial and Post-colonial Geographies of India and Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India.Jatrana, Santosh: - Santosh Jatrana works at the Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne. |