In the article by Sonal Sharma, a micro ethnographic study is used to identify caste and social relations in the city of Delhi, both between domestic workers and their employers as well as within themselves especially if multiple castes work for the same households. She identifies a preference for higher castes as permanent employees as against Dalit/Jamadar/Muslim workers who may be relegated to cleaning washrooms for 5-6 households at once and not allowed anywhere else lest they pollute. Workers also refuse to work for Muslims as they eat "dirty" i.e. eat beef. This belief is widespread, allowing them to have a small agency in selecting their employers.
In the Article by Maria Mies, who examines the dynamics of sexual division of labor in the lace mills of Narsapur, the author talks about the exploitation of labor of women and children as a continuation of practices made in similar sweatshops in the United Kingdom, even though they had been almost exclusively engaged in this trade from it's introduction in the 1860s. The women were relegated into perceiving themselves as housewives rather than main breadwinners of the family as they actually were. Before engaging in the lace making industry, they were housewives and are painted as housewives after. The Article talks about pauperisation of the workers due to debt in their agricultural businesses and their subsequent turning to the lace or thread industry.
Both articles talk about the treatment of women as housewives even as they work in the informal sector, and preventing their entry into the formal sector, thus allowing for overt exploitation of their labor within an urban as well as a rural setting
In the Article by Maria Mies, who examines the dynamics of sexual division of labor in the lace mills of Narsapur, the author talks about the exploitation of labor of women and children as a continuation of practices made in similar sweatshops in the United Kingdom, even though they had been almost exclusively engaged in this trade from it's introduction in the 1860s. The women were relegated into perceiving themselves as housewives rather than main breadwinners of the family as they actually were. Before engaging in the lace making industry, they were housewives and are painted as housewives after. The Article talks about pauperisation of the workers due to debt in their agricultural businesses and their subsequent turning to the lace or thread industry.
Both articles talk about the treatment of women as housewives even as they work in the informal sector, and preventing their entry into the formal sector, thus allowing for overt exploitation of their labor within an urban as well as a rural setting
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