The Productive ‘Reproductive Work’: A Study On Female Domestic Labourers In Punalur, Kerala
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 9
Abstract
Domestic work involves with both the productive aspect of reproductive work and the reproductive aspect of productive work, and the private aspect of public sphere the public aspect of private sphere. While specifically considering the existing circumstances of caste-class hierarchy and discrimination prevailing in India, the concept of ‘home as a work place’ cuts across other binaries as well. Experience of domestic workers in encountering this aspect of their work is also given significance in the research. This study aims to understand and explore domestic work from this perspective with a socialist feminist concern, exploring the features of ‘capitalist patriarchy’ entailed in it. It inquisitively examines how female domestic labourers conceive household work. Their work is unpaid in their own house and paid in their working place. Similarly, their working place is a house where they do household activities almost as same as they do at their home, which might question their idea of public-private division of spatiality. The study also interrogates their economic benefits, decision making power, health issues and exhaustion due to the double physical labour, along with a critical enquiry: What belittles domestic work: Domesticity or femininity or the ‘Domesticated femininity’ attached to it?
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Dr. Niyathi R. Krishna
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