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100			_aThompson, Barbara Grossman _924606
245			_aIn this profession we eat dust: Informal and formal solidarity among women urban transportation workers in Nepal
260			_aDevelopment and Change
300			_a 51(3), May, 2020: p.874-894
520			_aThis article considers the working lives of women who drive electric rickshaws, known as tempos, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines drivers’ precarious working conditions and the strategies they use in an effort to secure better conditions and job security. This case study illuminates the particulars of women tempo drivers’ day‐to‐day experiences and also speaks to larger debates in feminist political economy surrounding women's entrance into the paid labour force, especially in South Asia. Women drivers provide a compelling example of how socio‐economically disadvantaged women in industrializing and urbanizing cities of the global South find ways to create and protect spaces of dignified work and worker solidarity despite myriad challenges. Evidence from the research suggests that both informal and more formalized coping and resistance strategies are important mechanisms through which women seek to change the terms of their labour. - Reproduced
650			_aWomen - Nepal, Workers - Nepal _924607
773			_aDevelopment and Change
906			_aTRANSPORTATION - NEPAL
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