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Paid–Unpaid Work Continuum of Women: Home-Based Workers and Self-Employed Women in the National Capital Region

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  • Sudeshna Sengupta

    (Ambedkar University, Delhi)

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Women’s work is a continuum that intersperses productive work with reproductive work, unpaid work with paid work and all kinds of activities with leisure and self-care. She plans, manages and implements her work at home, often being responsible for all the three domains. Women from working-class families may seem to be making a “choice” in deciding the continuum, and delving deep, we find that it is more often a “coping mechanism” in “managing poverty” of all forms—income, time and opportunity. This paper explores how women’s organisation of work is influenced by the interplay of three institutions—State, market and family, and how gendered division of work is reproduced in the process.

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  • Sudeshna Sengupta, 2019. "Paid–Unpaid Work Continuum of Women: Home-Based Workers and Self-Employed Women in the National Capital Region," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 62(2), pages 265-278, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijlaec:v:62:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1007_s41027-019-00176-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s41027-019-00176-7
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    1. Pushpendra Singh & Falguni Pattanaik, 2020. "Unfolding unpaid domestic work in India: women’s constraints, choices, and career," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 6(1), pages 1-13, December.

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