Sumathi
Sumathi has been working with domestic workers for 10 years at Stree Jagruti Samiti, where she also handles crisis response in cases of domestic violence and rescuing women from child labour.
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The conversations on Indian gig economy miss the domestic work industry
While the move to online platforms for domestic work in India has given a sense of security and identity in some cases to the workers, the commodification of care under online platforms has erased the kind of quasi-familial support and connection, the absence of which was truly felt by workers during the pandemic.
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Domestic work in the platform economy: reflections on difficulty to set up interviews
As part of the Feminist Internet Research Network, we are including a series of short pieces on reflections by researchers on the ground, and in this piece, the researcher speaks of the difficulties of setting up interviews with domestic workers, often torn between home and work obligations.
