{"product_id":"politics-of-precarity-gendered-subjects-and-the-healthcare-industry-in-contemporay-kolkata-hardcover","title":"Politics of Precarity: Gendered Subjects and the Healthcare Industry in Contemporay Kolkata - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePanchali Ray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a ethnographic study on women working in the health care industry, the book examines the everyday politics of labour to understand how occupational hierarchies intersect with social identities in a hitherto feminine caste-based occupation. The book traces the emergence and refashioning of the nursing profession, from colonial Bengal to contemporary Kolkata to argue that nursing labour is cleaved along the lines of 'prestigious' and 'dirty' work, which reflect not just skills but also historically and socially produced structural inequalities. Thus certain segments of the profession have witnessed professionalisation, such as trained nurses, and certain segments, such as nursing aides and attendants, continue to struggle with non-recognition of skills and stigmatisation of labour. The book interrogates the politics of distinction and distancing that produces a differentiated workforce, and the various contestations around gender, caste, class, sexualities, among and between ranks of workers who deploy modernity, morality and social norms as strategies to secure marginal gains at the expense of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanchali Ray, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor, Jadavpur University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePanchali Ray is Assistant Professor at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48551580860665,"sku":"9780199489763","price":76.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/zDJ0Hlcgr9780199489763.webp?v=1781908008","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/politics-of-precarity-gendered-subjects-and-the-healthcare-industry-in-contemporay-kolkata-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}