WOMENS PAID DOMESTIC WORK AND RURAL TRANSFORMATION - A STUDY IN SOUTHGUJARAT

The organisation of domestic work articulates nor only gender differen ces and inequalities within and between households but also those of c lass and caste. This study examines the ways in which these class, cas te and gender relations are constructed, reinforced and negotiated in an activity which cuts across the dichotomies of paid and unpaid, repr oductive and productive and the household and the market to distinguis h domestic work from other forms of employment.