'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)

The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].

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Year of publication:	2010-03
Authors:	Chakravarty, Deepita ; Chakravarty, Ishita
Institutions:	eSocialSciences
Subject:	west bengal \| age \| labour market \| women \| refugee \| population \| employment \| India \| Women \| Girl Children \| Domestics \| Calcutta \| post partition \| salary \| domestic service

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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