Surya Sushil Sarwan Week 7

Sonal Sharma (2013) in a study ‘Of Rasoi ka kaam/ Bathroom ka kaam’ points out the traditional thinking of the families regarding the categorisation of the workers. Employers segregate tasks for their notions of “purity” and “pollution,” which has often been seen as reproducing caste relations. Interview with OBC caste workers indicates that people from her caste do only rasoi ka kaam (kitchen-related work) and not bathroom ka kaam (any task involving bathroom). These responses clearly indicate that sometimes workers do not only know what they should or should not do, but also, in their schema of task-segregation, who should do it. The caste factor is very crucial in the selection of domestic worker. As if she is dalit/ tribe then she is only supposed to clean bathroom and not enter in the kitchen.

It is settled that all specialists have confronted distance somewhat in their lives and it is exceptionally unavoidable in the Indian setting. For example, most assistants are asked their position before enlistment or their station is unlawfully assumed or concluded based on their inception. Laborers' practices show that station assumes an essential job in organizing the relations, it isn't the main personality busy working and features the significance of religion and area. Thoughts of contamination as "evasion" apply to laborers just as they "maintain a strategic distance from" specific exercises just as specific places in the family relying upon their rank. Like, laborers higher in the order of rank don't incline toward doing "humble/tainted" errands like cleaning the washroom and partner these assignments with those having a place with the most minimal crosspiece; others, similar to Muslims or laborers having a place with various religions, are not allowed in the kitchen. The equivalent is replicated by the businesses as they isolate errands. In any case, it ought not be reasoned that laborers' acts of unapproachability can be likened with those of managers due to control disparities with genuine financial results.