Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 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
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 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
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Women Workers in Urban India , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016