A Woman's Job - Couverture souple

Islam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009536656 ISBN 13 : 9781009536653

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Against the backdrop of rapid socio-economic change in post-1990 India, scholars and policy makers have expressed surprise at the low rate of women's participation in the workforce, particularly in urban areas. A Woman's Job presents a unique urban ethnography of young lower middle class women's lives in Delhi as they weave in and out of service employment, education, and domestic contracts. Urban, educated, and skilled, these young women seek employment in cafes, malls, call centres, and offices in the globalising landscape of Delhi. Their participation in work enables access to 'things', such as, jeans, smartphones, English language, and the metro, that symbolise global modernity. However, caught in a web of gender, class, and caste inequalities, their identification as 'working' women also generates social anxieties. The book shows how women adopt 'middle-ness' as a strategy of life-making at the multiple sites of work, home, and leisure.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Asiya Islam is Assistant Professor of Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research on gender, work and digital technologies has been funded by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit). She has published widely, including in the journals Gender and Society, Gender, Work and Organization and Sociology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009536656
• ISBN 13: 9781009536653
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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