Beyond the ISP Controversy: Women, Work, and Labor History
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2009v1n2p147Keywords:
social history, women’s work, labor relations, genderAbstract
This article develops a review of recent social historiography in India on women ́s work, and defends the need to go beyond them. In a context of desindustrialization and informalisation of labor relations in India, the author focuses on some historiographical interpretations, particularly the breadwinner debate, and the exclusion and invisibilization of women it entails. The author also reviews recent studies on women ́s rural work in the context of male migrations to urban settings in order to question the boundaries between formal and informal labor. Finally, she defendes the need to rethink relations among work, domesticity and gender, in a perspective that privileges women ́s strategies to redefine notions of domesticity int their daily practices.
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