‘Working from home is better than going out to the factories’ (?): Spatial Embeddedness, Agency and Labour-Market Decisions of Women in the City of Delhi

Sharma, Sonal; Kunduri, Eesha

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“…Similarly, urban life has challenged patriarchal systems, weakening the hold of village and caste hierarchies and norms and offering anonymity that makes work and public life possible (Kaur, 2006; Sharma & Kunduri, 2015). Writing in the context of Singapore, Yeoh and Ramdas (2014) note that cities offer the opportunity for immigrant women to ‘refashion themselves as “modern,” “independent” and to carve out and negotiate spaces that accommodate their desires and dreams for a different future’.…”

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Testing the Waters: Young Women’s Work and Mobile Aspirations in India’s Small Cities

Naik

2022

Social Change

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While metropolitan cities are framed as emancipatory spaces for women migrants, we know less about their experiences in smaller cities, which are driving urban transformation in India. Drawing on pre-pandemic fieldwork with employed youth (aged 15–29 years) in Mangalore and Kishangarh, this article investigates young women’s work, education, aspirations and mobilities in smaller cities which have relatively weak scalar positions in terms of global economic, political and social power. This article finds that small cities act as regional action spaces for women from villages and small towns to capitalise on fleeting opportunities and push against patriarchal boundaries through mobilities. It shows how women use a range of strategies from individual power tactics within households to leveraging institutional support systems to do so. The article suggests that situating migrant-friendly policy initiatives in small cities can potentially improve employment and mobility outcomes for young women.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Testing the Waters: Young Women’s Work and Mobile Aspirations in India’s Small Cities

Naik

2022

Social Change

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“…Women's labour market decisions tend to be much more sensitive to "place" and dependent on their agency in traversing gender relations across scales, and localised configurations of service delivery (Sharma & Kunduri, 2015) . Our paper seeks to understand the gendered impact of evictions on livelihoods.…”

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Equal Cities : IIHS Annual Research Conference Proceedings

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2020

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Urban ARC is the Annual Research Conference of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). The fourth edition of Urban ARC, ‘Equal Cities’, focussed on the conceptual, theoretical and practical understanding of notions of equality and equity in the context of a rapidly urbanising world. Panels engaged with the idea of equity and equality through a range of lenses, across theory and praxis, across geographical and spatial contexts, and discipline and methodologies. The conference was held from 16 to 18 January 2020 at the IIHS Bengaluru City Campus. These Conference Proceedings feature the extended abstracts submitted by the selected participants for Urban ARC 2020.

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“…Bu durum, evde çalışanların sömürülmesine yol açmakta ve onlara daha düşük ücret verilmesini meşru saymaktadır (Prügl, 1996: 117). Kadınlar, ataerkil değerlerin sonucu olarak ev eksenli çalışma ile işgücü piyasasına görünmez ve savunmasız olarak katılmaktadırlar (Sharma ve Kunduri, 2015;Hassan ve Azman, 2014: 52-53;Stratigaki ve Vaiou, 1997). Ev eksenli çalışma biçimi, kadınların işgücü piyasasında kayıtlı-formel istihdam alanlarını azaltmakta, enformel işgücü olarak istihdamdaki paylarını artırmaktadır.…”

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Informal Female Workforce in The Labor Market: A Research for Women Working at Home Axis

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2019

MANAS Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi

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Ev eksenli çalışma ile özellikle konfeksiyon sektöründe işgücü piyasasına ve istihdama katılan kadınların sayısı dünyada ve Türkiye'de artmıştır. Bu çalışma biçimi ile istihdama katılan kadınlar, kayıtdışı, yasal düzenlemelerin dışında, asgari ücretin çok altında bir ücret geliri ile çalıştırılmaktadır. Üretim sürecine ev eksenli çalışma ile katılan kadınlar, işgücü piyasasında ve istihdamda enformel kadın işgücü olarak yer almaktadır. Kadınların ev eksenli, enformel işgücü olarak çalışmasında ekonomik ve sosyo-kültürel faktörler etkilidir. Söz konusu faktörler kadınların ev eksenli çalışmasına zemin hazırlarken olumsuz çalışma koşullarının oluşmasına da yol açmaktadır. Çalışmada, ev eksenli çalışmaya yol açan ekonomik ve sosyo-kültürel faktörler, çalışma koşulları ve sorunları yapılan nitel araştırma bulguları ile ortaya konulmaktadır. Çalışma, ev eksenli çalışan kadınların durumlarını ve konumlarını geliştirmeye yönelik sosyal politika önlemlerine gereksinim olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Ev eksenli çalışan kadınların işgücü piyasası ve istihdamdaki durum ve konumlarını iyileştiren her türlü politika önlemleri kadınların toplumsal yaşamdaki konum ve durumlarını da iyileştirecek ve geliştirecektir.

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‘Working from home is better than going out to the factories’ (?): Spatial Embeddedness, Agency and Labour-Market Decisions of Women in the City of Delhi

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Testing the Waters: Young Women’s Work and Mobile Aspirations in India’s Small Cities

Testing the Waters: Young Women’s Work and Mobile Aspirations in India’s Small Cities

Equal Cities : IIHS Annual Research Conference Proceedings

Informal Female Workforce in The Labor Market: A Research for Women Working at Home Axis

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