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Srinivas R. Kandula
Bio: Srinivas R. Kandula is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 14 citations.
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TL;DR: The crisis unleashed by COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the world of work, with many workers losing their jobs or with insufficient safety measures in place for those still in work.
Abstract: The crisis unleashed by COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the world of work, with many workers losing their jobs or with insufficient safety measures in place for those still in work. Migrant worker...
21 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the gender subtext of foundational dichotomies in political economy, which constitute central concepts in its theorizing, and propose a method to identify gender sub-texts of these dichosies.
Abstract: Political Economy is inundated with foundational dichotomies, which constitute central concepts in its theorizing. Feminist scholarship has problematized the gender subtext of these dichotomies and...
18 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored how domestic workers in Hong Kong are represented as forcibly queered, forced by circumstance, in the documentaries The Sunday Beauty Queen (2017) and The Helper (2017).
Abstract: This paper treats the documentaries Sunday Beauty Queen (2017) and The Helper (2017) to explore how domestic workers in Hong Kong are represented as forcibly queered, forced by circumstance...
8 citations
10 Dec 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the multifaceted challenges that feminist labor organizations face in decommodifying the lives and labor of poor and working-class women, and find that non-governmental organizations such as the National House Managers Cooperative and the Korean Women Workers Association became entangled in hegemonic state projects that linked support for women's basic livelihoods to the proliferation of part-time, informal domestic work in the context of widespread crises.
Abstract: In this chapter, we examine the multifaceted challenges that feminist labor organizations face in decommodifying the lives and labor of poor and working-class women. Using an in-depth case study of domestic worker organizing in South Korea, we find that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the National House Managers Cooperative and the Korean Women Workers Association became entangled in hegemonic state projects that linked support for women’s basic livelihoods to the proliferation of part-time, informal domestic work in the context of widespread crises. To challenge the discriminatory and market-driven logics of state-driven social protection efforts, these NGOs have advanced an emancipatory agenda to improve the working conditions, labor rights, and social dignity of domestic workers through consciousness-raising grassroots organizing methods and contentious policy advocacy campaigns. Their social movement transformation goals, however, have been constrained by the relative organizational isolation and limited organizational capacity of feminist labor NGOs in a broader context of neoliberal precaritization and gender-stratified labor markets. The myriad dilemmas facing domestic worker organizing in an era of global hegemonic market rule highlight the need to develop new political imaginaries to contest gender and economic injustice.
6 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the role played by Convention No. 189 on regulatory reforms, focusing on the legislative measures taken in three Latin American countries that have ratified it: Argentina, Chile and Paraguay.
Abstract: In June 2011, the International Labour Conference adopted the Convention concerning decent work for domestic workers, No. 189, and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201. From a comparative law standpoint, this article seeks to analyse the role played by Convention No. 189 on regulatory reforms, focusing on the legislative measures taken in three Latin American countries that have ratified it: Argentina, Chile and Paraguay. An analysis is also made of the discussions and controversies that have determined the way in which the working time and wage provisions contained in the Convention have been incorporated into the national laws on paid domestic work in these three countries.
4 citations