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Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 2015
In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply ... more In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply with, rather than challenge, male dominance. Yet, even as social structures constrain the actions of women more so than those of men, they allow spaces where women can fulfill their own and their families’ needs. Based on case studies of different groups of women engaged in the garment and construction sectors and those who had given up wage work, I argue in this paper that women's ability to shift power relations at home depended on the kind of paid employment they were engaged in and its social recognition. The agency of women who had given up wage work and those in independent paid employment was shaped by different factors. The differences in their familial and kinship roles, stage-of-life identities, the class position of their households, the ability to mobilize their social networks and access to earnings impacted intra- and extra-household relations and women's ability to shift these relations.
The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2016
Even as employment in the construction industry in India has grown in recent decades, economic in... more Even as employment in the construction industry in India has grown in recent decades, economic insecurities of workers persist. The existing forms of work and labour control, embedded in capitalist and patriarchal relations, are significant for women's ability to question or resist their conditions of work. To understand the relations among workers and between workers and contractors/employers, this study draws on Scott's idea of the 'moral economy'. I argue in this article that in the absence of formal or legal contracts between workers and contractors, women are led to mobilize on their social capital or their valued relations with contractors and co-workers. Women's responses to their situation may not demonstrate a strong articulation of exploitation in class or feminist terms, but their political sense is informed by ideas of morality and reciprocity in relationships. Their resistance could be strengthened when they collectively act with workers in a similar situation.
In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply ... more In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply with, rather than challenge, male dominance. Yet, even as social structures constrain the actions of women more so than those of men,
they allow spaces where women can fulfill their own and their families’ needs. Based on case studies of different groups of women engaged in the garment and construction sectors and those who had given up wage work, I argue in this paper that women’s ability to shift power relations at home depended
on the kind of paid employment they were engaged in and its social recognition. The agency of women who had given up wage work and those in independent paid employment was shaped by different factors. The differences in their familial and kinship roles, stage-of-life identities, the
class position of their households, the ability to mobilize their social networks and access to earnings impacted intra- and extra-household relations and women’s ability to shift these relations.
This paper examines the differential allocation of work and pay to men and women in the construct... more This paper examines the differential allocation of work and pay to men and women in the construction industry. It analyses how such differences are governed by cultural and ideological perceptions of the capabilities of men and women and the idea of the male breadwinner. It further discusses women’s experiences of acquiring skills of a mason and their attempts at asserting their identities as skilled workers. The paper argues that even when women were not able to bring about significant improvements in their work opportunities and pay, their attempts at putting their skill into use at the workplace and in the domestic sphere indicated their covert assertion against the established division of skill and labour.
Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 2015
In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply ... more In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply with, rather than challenge, male dominance. Yet, even as social structures constrain the actions of women more so than those of men, they allow spaces where women can fulfill their own and their families’ needs. Based on case studies of different groups of women engaged in the garment and construction sectors and those who had given up wage work, I argue in this paper that women's ability to shift power relations at home depended on the kind of paid employment they were engaged in and its social recognition. The agency of women who had given up wage work and those in independent paid employment was shaped by different factors. The differences in their familial and kinship roles, stage-of-life identities, the class position of their households, the ability to mobilize their social networks and access to earnings impacted intra- and extra-household relations and women's ability to shift these relations.
The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2016
Even as employment in the construction industry in India has grown in recent decades, economic in... more Even as employment in the construction industry in India has grown in recent decades, economic insecurities of workers persist. The existing forms of work and labour control, embedded in capitalist and patriarchal relations, are significant for women's ability to question or resist their conditions of work. To understand the relations among workers and between workers and contractors/employers, this study draws on Scott's idea of the 'moral economy'. I argue in this article that in the absence of formal or legal contracts between workers and contractors, women are led to mobilize on their social capital or their valued relations with contractors and co-workers. Women's responses to their situation may not demonstrate a strong articulation of exploitation in class or feminist terms, but their political sense is informed by ideas of morality and reciprocity in relationships. Their resistance could be strengthened when they collectively act with workers in a similar situation.
In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply ... more In the South Asian context, the importance of male protection and provision lead women to comply with, rather than challenge, male dominance. Yet, even as social structures constrain the actions of women more so than those of men,
they allow spaces where women can fulfill their own and their families’ needs. Based on case studies of different groups of women engaged in the garment and construction sectors and those who had given up wage work, I argue in this paper that women’s ability to shift power relations at home depended
on the kind of paid employment they were engaged in and its social recognition. The agency of women who had given up wage work and those in independent paid employment was shaped by different factors. The differences in their familial and kinship roles, stage-of-life identities, the
class position of their households, the ability to mobilize their social networks and access to earnings impacted intra- and extra-household relations and women’s ability to shift these relations.
This paper examines the differential allocation of work and pay to men and women in the construct... more This paper examines the differential allocation of work and pay to men and women in the construction industry. It analyses how such differences are governed by cultural and ideological perceptions of the capabilities of men and women and the idea of the male breadwinner. It further discusses women’s experiences of acquiring skills of a mason and their attempts at asserting their identities as skilled workers. The paper argues that even when women were not able to bring about significant improvements in their work opportunities and pay, their attempts at putting their skill into use at the workplace and in the domestic sphere indicated their covert assertion against the established division of skill and labour.