Domestic Days: Women, Work, and Politics in Contemporary Kolkata

by Nilanjana Sengupta and Samita Sen

Maids have become an inseparable part of the daily lives of amiddle-classa urban households in India. Despite the fact that increasing numbers of poor women are joining this profession, very little has been written about them, especially the part-time domestic workers, each of whom services a number of households at a time. They are not accorded their rightful status as workers either by the employers, their own families, the Government or traditional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199461163
• ISBN13: 9780199461165
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"