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Record W3081771694 · doi:10.1080/02732173.2020.1812457

Voices of domestic workers in Calcutta

2020· article· en· W3081771694 on OpenAlex
Sweta Ghosh, Jenny Godley

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Bibliographic record

VenueSociological Spectrum · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration and Labor Dynamics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCompassionFocus groupSocial psychologyGrounded theoryGender studiesPsychologySociologyQualitative researchPolitical scienceSocial scienceLaw

Abstract

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This research examines the experiences of female domestic workers in Calcutta, India, with a focus on the relationships between the workers and their female employers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty female domestic workers in Calcutta in 2015–2016. The women were asked to reflect on their relationships with their female employers, and responses were analyzed using grounded theory. Three themes emerged from the analysis, indicating three different kinds of relationships the workers had with their employers. Some of the women talked about a professional relationship, which is formal and lacks warmth, characterized by status differentiation. Others talked about a distant and abusive relationship, where exploitation is direct and explicit. The largest group talked about a caring and supportive relationship, where there is love, consideration, and understanding. All three groups of women, however, felt that their relationship with their female employer involved some level of exploitation, whether it was overt or concealed. These findings give voice to a vulnerable group of workers in contemporary India, exposing social relationships between women of different classes that are characterized by both compassion and exploitation. We argue that these women’s stories provide further evidence that legal protections must be put in place for domestic workers in India, in accordance with international recommendations.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.258
Threshold uncertainty score0.976

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it