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Women, Labour and the Economy in India - From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.


List of 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: Women and Girl Children Domestic Workers in Post Partition Kolkata 5. When Daughters Migrate and Mothers Stay Back 6. From Family Members to Invisible Essentials: Masters, Mistresses and their Domestic Workers 7. The Case of Bangladesh

About the author

Deepita Chakravarty is Associate Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India.
Ishita Chakravarty is Associate Professor of History at Vidyasagar College, University of Calcutta, India.

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