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A Woman's Job Making Middle Lives in New India

Books from same Author: Asiya Islam

Books from same Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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    Author(s)Asiya Islam
    PublisherCambridge University Press
    ISBN9781009536653
    Pages194
    BindingSoftcover
    LanguageEnglish
    Publish YearJanuary 2025

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    Cambridge University Press A Woman's Job Making Middle Lives in New India by Asiya Islam

    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.