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OverviewAgainst 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Asiya Islam (University of Leeds,UK)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781009536653ISBN 10: 1009536656 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 31 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsDedication; Acknowledgements; Note about anonymisation and translation; Cast of characters; 1. A Woman's Job; 2. Madam | English; 3. Fast-forward | TATA Nano; 4. Middle class | Smartphones; 5. Heroine | Jeans; 6. Working | Job; 7. Middle Lives.ReviewsAuthor InformationAsiya Islam is Assistant Professor in Gender, Development & Globalisation at the London School of Economics. Her research on gender, work, and digital technologies has been funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust, British Academy, and ESRC Digit Research Centre. She has published widely, including in Gender & Society, Gender, Work & Organization, Sociology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |