State Without Honour
Women Workers in India’s Anganwadis
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9780199468164
Publication date:
30/12/2016
Hardback
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ISBN:
9780199468164
Publication date:
30/12/2016
Hardback
M.S. Sreerekha
This book is an attempt to rethink the meaning of work in order to contribute towards a better understanding of women’s work and its devaluation. The book specifically focuses on the role of the state towards the same and uses the example of the concept of the honorary women workers in India’s ICDS to elaborate on the same.
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M.S. Sreerekha
Description
This book explores the political economy of women’s work in India and its relationship to the Indian state. The author argues that the withdrawal of state support under globalization, coinciding with the demand for expansion of state welfare schemes, is progressively weakening the social-service sector in the country. More and more women, particularly from the lower social strata, are employed in new social-welfare schemes where the form of work is defined as voluntary social service. Through a case study of honorary women workers in anganwadis of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme, this book sheds light on the contemporary understanding of the status of women within these welfare policies.
State Without Honour discusses the history and politics of women’s work and the use of women’s less-paid labour in state-sponsored social welfare schemes in India. It contributes a deeper understanding around the process of the expansion of scheme-based social welfare projects in contemporary India as a symbol of further marginalization and exploitation of its women workers. It explains how the entry of more women workers into state social welfare projects also coincides with and contributes to further intrusion of private capital into the local economy with the direct support of state-sponsored social welfare schemes. It helps to see the Indian state shape itself into the role of a non-state actor through its own performance or lack of it.
About the Author
M.S. Sreerekha is a faculty member at the Global Studies Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
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M.S. Sreerekha
Table of contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Understanding Work: Work, Worker, and the Woman Worker
2. Women Workers in India: Issues and Debates
3. The Story of the Honorary Workers in India’s Anganwadis
4. Anganwadi Workers in the National Capital Region
5. Resistance and Struggles around the Honorary Worker’s Rights
6. Not for ‘Honour’: Just for Rights
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
M.S. Sreerekha
Features
- It is a comprehensive study of Anganwadi women workers in India
- It reinvigorates debates around the link between gender and labour in India
- Addresses women workers in government run welfare programs or schemes.
M.S. Sreerekha
Description
This book explores the political economy of women’s work in India and its relationship to the Indian state. The author argues that the withdrawal of state support under globalization, coinciding with the demand for expansion of state welfare schemes, is progressively weakening the social-service sector in the country. More and more women, particularly from the lower social strata, are employed in new social-welfare schemes where the form of work is defined as voluntary social service. Through a case study of honorary women workers in anganwadis of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme, this book sheds light on the contemporary understanding of the status of women within these welfare policies.
State Without Honour discusses the history and politics of women’s work and the use of women’s less-paid labour in state-sponsored social welfare schemes in India. It contributes a deeper understanding around the process of the expansion of scheme-based social welfare projects in contemporary India as a symbol of further marginalization and exploitation of its women workers. It explains how the entry of more women workers into state social welfare projects also coincides with and contributes to further intrusion of private capital into the local economy with the direct support of state-sponsored social welfare schemes. It helps to see the Indian state shape itself into the role of a non-state actor through its own performance or lack of it.
About the Author
M.S. Sreerekha is a faculty member at the Global Studies Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Kindly download the flyer for more details.
Table of contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Understanding Work: Work, Worker, and the Woman Worker
2. Women Workers in India: Issues and Debates
3. The Story of the Honorary Workers in India’s Anganwadis
4. Anganwadi Workers in the National Capital Region
5. Resistance and Struggles around the Honorary Worker’s Rights
6. Not for ‘Honour’: Just for Rights
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
