| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Setting the Backdrop -- 2. Women Workers in Urban India and the Cities -- 3. Gendered Vulnerabilities: Work-life Trajectories of Female Domestic Workers in Jaipur -- 4. Occupational Domestication in a Post-Resettlement Context: An Analysis of Women's Work in Kannagi Nagar, Chennai -- 5. Old Jobs in New Forms: Women's Experiences in the Housekeeping Sector in Pune -- 6. Persistent Inequalities and Deepened Burden of Work?: An Analysis of Women's Employment in Delhi -- 7. Spare Change for Spare Time?: Homeworking Women in Banaras -- 8. Gender, Work and Space: Home-based Workers in Garment Industry in Kolkata -- 9. Labour Control and Responses: Women Workers in an Apparel Park in Kerala -- 10. New Urban Economic Spaces and the Gendered World of Work in Kolkata -- 11. Gender Equality and Women's Employment in the Banking Sector in India -- 12. Women Body Screeners and the Securitization of Space in Indian Cities. |
| Summary |
"Discusses the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in the cityscape and bringing to surface the contradictions that this assumption offers"--Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Women employees -- India.
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Women employees. |
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India. |
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Sex discrimination against women -- India.
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Sex role in the work environment -- India.
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Sex discrimination against women. |
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Sex role in the work environment. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. |
| Added Author |
Raju, Saraswati, editor.
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Jatrana, Santosh, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women workers in urban India. Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, [2016] 9781107133280 1107133289 (DLC) 2016003016 (OCoLC)951557972 |
| ISBN |
9781316674925 (electronic book) |
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1316674924 (electronic book) |
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9781316459621 (electronic book) |
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1316459624 (electronic book) |
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9781316675281 (electronic book) |
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1316675289 (electronic book) |
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9781316675106 (electronic book) |
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1316675106 (electronic book) |
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1316674746 |
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9781316674741 |
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9781107133280 (hardback) |
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1107133289 (hardback) |
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