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Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

dc.contributor.authorAjay, Anamika
dc.contributor.authorJ, Devika
dc.contributor.editorSatija, Shivani
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-27T16:31:34Z
dc.date.available2025-02-27T16:31:34Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-12
dc.identifier.isbn1364-9221
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2024.2410057
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/621679
dc.description<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p>This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform stigmatised work and carry burdens of social reproduction. However, they relate to their work in distinctly different ways. The first is of paid cleaning/domestic workers who entered work and negotiated for wages individually in the city of Kochi; the second is of workers who entered paid cleaning/domestic work as part of a local women&#8217;s collective aided by the local government in the city of Thiruvananthapuram. We found that though the first group secured better wages than the second, the latter tided over pandemic-induced vulnerabilities far better. Through this comparison, the paper demonstrates the relevance of collective bargaining and state welfare support in helping vulnerable women workers absorb and adapt to various shocks. However, the paper cautions against both romanticising the resilience capacities of informal collectives of women workers which can be rendered fragile by capitalist interventions, as well as treating them as necessarily anti-patriarchal.</p> </body> </html>en_US
dc.format.extent21en_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.publisherOxfam KEDVen_US
dc.publisherOxfam Mexicoen_US
dc.publisherOxfam Colombiaen_US
dc.publisherOxfam South Africaen_US
dc.publisherOxfam Indiaen_US
dc.publisherOxfam Brazilen_US
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/tiding-over-socio-ecological-vulnerabilities-experiences-of-two-groups-of-clean-621679
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.titleTiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, Indiaen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1355-2074
dc.identifier.journalGender and Developmenten_US
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use. Can be shared outside Oxfamen_US
oxfam.subject.countryIndiaen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordPandemicen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordcleaning/domestic workersen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordResilienceen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordcollective bargainingen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordwelfare stateen_US
prism.issuenameDisaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crisesen_US
prism.number3en_US
prism.volume32en_US


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