Overview
- Situates the issue of domestic workers in India within a rights-based framework
- Focuses on legal as well as social, psycho-social, economic, and cultural dimensions of domestic work
- Contains useful takeaways for teachers, students, practitioners, policy-makers, and civil society organizations working in the unorganized sector
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Upasana Mahanta is an Associate Professor and Executive Director in the Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University. She is also the Director of Office of Student Life and Cultural Engagement at O.P. Jindal Global University. Prior to joining Jindal Global University, she was working as an Assistant Professor in Centre for Women's Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Dr. Mahanta has completed her Ph.D. from Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was also a Shastri Doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Mahanta’s research interests include role of women in emergent political institutions; gendered understanding of conflict; women organizing and resisting in insecure contexts; and examining development through a gendered lens.
Dr. Indranath Gupta is an Associate Research Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Postgraduate Legal Studies and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law. He is a co-director of JIRICO, Assistant Dean (Student Initiatives), and a Senior Fellow at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS). Dr. Gupta received his LL.B. degree from the University of Calcutta, India; holds an LLM with distinction from the University of Aberdeen, UK; and a postgraduate research LLM in Computer Law from the University of East Anglia, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. from Brunel University, London, UK. Dr. Gupta has been involved in qualitative and quantitative research. He was appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programm, and he is actively involved in a research project on copyright with researchers in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Gupta has also worked as an advocate in a solicitor’s firm at the Calcutta High Court. He has published in European and Indian law journals and has spoken at international conferences and seminars. His research areas include database right, copyright, data protection, cyber law and the interface of IP and competition law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recognition of the Rights of Domestic Workers in India
Book Subtitle: Challenges and the Way Forward
Editors: Upasana Mahanta, Indranath Gupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5764-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5763-3Published: 21 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-5764-0Published: 08 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 190
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Labour Law/Social Law, Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights