02636    a2200517   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001500138072001500153072001500168072001500183072001500198072001300213072001500226072001500241072001700256072001600273072001600289072001300305072001300318072001300331072001300344072001400357072001500371072001300386072001300399072001500412072001600427072002100443072002100464072002100485072002100506072002100527100002400548245010100572250000600673260003200679300001000711520135400721700002802075999001502103131736278020250317111644.0250312042015GB        14           eng    a9781317362784  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 45.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aKCF2thema7 aGTM2thema7 aKCL2thema7 aKCM2thema7 aNHF2thema7 aN2thema7 aKCZ2thema7 aJHB2thema7 aJBSF12thema7 a1FKA2bisac7 a3MPQ2bisac7 aKCF2bic7 aGTB2bic7 aKCL2bic7 aKCM2bic7 aHBJF2bic7 aHBLW32bic7 aKCZ2bic7 aJHB2bic7 aJFSJ12bic7 a1FKA2bisac7 aBUS0000002bisac7 aPOL0000002bisac7 aSOC0080002bisac7 aSOC0530002bisac7 a331.409542bisac1 aDeepita Chakravarty10aWomen, Labour and the Economy in IndiabFrom Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20151030  a160 p  bThe last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly. This is found to be much higher in certain parts of India, emerging as the single most important avenue for urban females, surpassing males in the service since the 1980s. By applying an imaginative and refreshing mix of disciplinary approaches ranging from economic models of the household, empirical analysis and literary conventions, this book analyses the changing labour economy in post-partition West Bengal. It explains how and why women and girl children have replaced this traditionally male bias in the gender segregated domestic service industry since the late 1940s, and addresses the question of whether this increase in vulnerable individuals working in domestic service, the growth of the urban professional middle class in the post liberalization period, and the increasing incidences of reported abuses of domestics, in urban middleclass homes in the recent years, are related. Covering five decades of the history of gender and labour in India, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of gender and labour relations, development studies, economics, history, and women and gender studies.1 aIshita Chakravarty4A01  c7921d7921