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Boeri, Natascia.

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Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India./
Author:	Boeri, Natascia.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04A(E).
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10165584
ISBN:	9781369199604

Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India.
Boeri, Natascia.

Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2016.

This dissertation critically questions the use of women's labor in international development and global capitalism by examining women's participation in the informal economy, a significant source of work for women in the Global South. Based on ten months of fieldwork in Ahmedabad, India, this study considers women's experiences with informality when they participate in home-based work, the production of goods for the market in one's own home. I ask how women's place-based activities redefine their roles and positions across three spheres of social life: the family, the economy, and civil society (through their participation in a non-governmental organization, or NGO). I argue that the material consequences of neoliberal capitalism for workers can only be fully understood by also accounting for ideological and symbolic relations of power, which is possible with the analytical framework provided by social reproduction theory. Working with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a membership-based organization for women in the informal economy in India, I conducted a survey of one hundred home-based garment workers, follow-up interviews with thirty of the workers and spatial analysis of their homes, content analysis of SEWA documentation and media, and interviews with five SEWA directors and four local academics and activists.

ISBN: 9781369199604Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Boundaries of Home and Work: Social Reproduction and Home-Based Workers in Ahmedabad, India.
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