Middle-class women and domestic work in India and the united states: Caste, race and patriarchy
By: Nair, Gayatri and Hofman, Nila Ginger
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BookPublisher: Sociological Bulletin Description: 71(1), Jan, 2022: p.24-40.Subject(s): Domestic work, Middle-class women, Caste, Race, Neoliberalism
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Sociological BulletinSummary: This study compares middle-class women’s experience of domestic work in India and the United States(US), highlighting similarities in how domestic work is organised in its paid and unpaid forms across both sites. The focus on middle-class women’s experience as unpaid workers and employers of domestic workers provides an insight into how the social and economic values of domestic work are determined. Despite social and political differences, the political economies of India and the US and interlocking systems of oppression including patriarchy, neoliberalism, caste and race have produced similarities in the undervaluation of domestic work at both sites.- Reproduced
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | 71(1), Jan, 2022: p.24-40 | Available | AR126999 |
This study compares middle-class women’s experience of domestic work in India and the United States(US), highlighting similarities in how domestic work is organised in its paid and unpaid forms across both sites. The focus on middle-class women’s experience as unpaid workers and employers of domestic workers provides an insight into how the social and economic values of domestic work are determined. Despite social and political differences, the political economies of India and the US and interlocking systems of oppression including patriarchy, neoliberalism, caste and race have produced similarities in the undervaluation of domestic work at both sites.- Reproduced
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