Politics of Precarity
Gendered Subjects and the Healthcare Industry in Contemporay Kolkata
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2019
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948976-3 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
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It is a ethnographic study on women working in the health care industry. The book traces the emergence and refashioning of the nursing profession , from colonial Bengal to contemporary Kolkata
Based on a ethnographic study on women working in the health care industry, the book examines the everyday politics of labour to understand how occupational hierarchies intersect with social identities in a hitherto feminine caste-based occupation. The book traces the emergence and refashioning of the nursing profession , from colonial Bengal to contemporary Kolkata to argue that nursing labour is cleaved along the lines of 'prestigious' and 'dirty' work, which reflect not just skills but also historically and socially produced structural inequalities. Thus certain segments of the profession have witnessed professionalisation, such as trained nurses, and certain segments, such as nursing aides and attendants, continue to struggle with non-recognition of skills and stigmatisation of labour. The book interrogates the politics of distinction and distancing that produces a differentiated workforce, and the various contestations around gender, caste, class, sexualities, among and between ranks of workers who deploy modernity, morality and social norms as strategies to secure marginal gains at the expense of others.
Based on a ethnographic study on women working in the health care industry, the book examines the everyday politics of labour to understand how occupational hierarchies intersect with social identities in a hitherto feminine caste-based occupation. The book traces the emergence and refashioning of the nursing profession , from colonial Bengal to contemporary Kolkata to argue that nursing labour is cleaved along the lines of 'prestigious' and 'dirty' work, which reflect not just skills but also historically and socially produced structural inequalities. Thus certain segments of the profession have witnessed professionalisation, such as trained nurses, and certain segments, such as nursing aides and attendants, continue to struggle with non-recognition of skills and stigmatisation of labour. The book interrogates the politics of distinction and distancing that produces a differentiated workforce, and the various contestations around gender, caste, class, sexualities, among and between ranks of workers who deploy modernity, morality and social norms as strategies to secure marginal gains at the expense of others.
Panchali Ray is Assistant Professor at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
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Acknowledgement
1. Introduction: Re/productive Work, Affective Labour, and Health Care Services
2. Disciplining 'Seba': The 'Trained' Nurse in Colonial Bengal
3. The Nursing Labour Market, Contemporary Kolkata
4. The Matrix of the Family and the Market: (Hetero) Normative Economies
5. (Re) producing the 'Other': Spatialising (Un)touchability, Dirty work, and Inequalities
6. (Re) producing the 'Other': Stigmatised Lives, Unruly Dispositions, Sexual Transgressions
7. Narratives of Resistance: Whither Politics?
Postscript
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 147 x 221 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-948976-9 / 0199489769 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-948976-3 / 9780199489763 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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