Regulating the Unregulated Condition of Domestic Workers - Urban Informal Economy and its Boundaries

This book is a short try to unveil the hidden realities of female domestic workers working in the informal sector of Dhaka city.This research has found that there is a direct link between female labor force and the informal sector.Informal sector is a area of feminized labor. Moreover in case of domestic labor most of the domestic workers are women and staying in a horrible condition. Furthermore through the intersectional lens it is clearly found that there is a direct power relation between two women as well as domestic worker and her female employer. This research explores how the intersection of gender with class, culture, sex, shapes different experiences for different categories women as employer and employee in domestic service.

Product details

• Authors: Shejuti Hayat
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2012
• EAN: 9783847336198
• ISBN: 978-3-8473-3619-8
• No. of pages: 72
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Development theory and development policy