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Title: SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF FULL TIME (LIVE-IN) DOMESTIC WORKERS IN TRICITY OF CHANDIGARH
Authors: Dilpreet Kaur
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Dilpreet Kaur Research Scholar, Institute for Development and Communication (An Approved Research Centre of Panjab University, Chandigarh)
MLA 8 Kaur, Dilpreet. "SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF FULL TIME (LIVE-IN) DOMESTIC WORKERS IN TRICITY OF CHANDIGARH." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 8, no. 11, Nov. 2023, pp. 3634-3650, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.019. Accessed Nov. 2023. APA 6 Kaur, D. (2023, November). SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF FULL TIME (LIVE-IN) DOMESTIC WORKERS IN TRICITY OF CHANDIGARH. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 8(11), 3634-3650. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.019 Chicago Kaur, Dilpreet. "SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF FULL TIME (LIVE-IN) DOMESTIC WORKERS IN TRICITY OF CHANDIGARH." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 8, no. 11 (November 2023), 3634-3650. Accessed November, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2023.v08i11.019.
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ABSTRACT: In the Tricity of Chandigarh (Chandigarh, Panchkula and SAS Nagar), the growing urbanization pulls the migrants from nearby rural areas especially from low income, illiterate, scheduled caste households in search of better job opportunities and decent place of living with a hope to get their children good education and a bright future. In the process of migration the male of the family gets accommodate themselves in salaried occupations or in some kind of selfemployment options, depending upon the level of their education. However, the female of the household are left with very few options domestic work being the most preferred where no skill and education is required to earn something instead of enjoying leisure time. The domestic workers are termed as full-time (live-in) domestic workers who work for cash payments and reside in the places of employers either in separate servant quarters or in the same house. Fulltime (live-in) domestic workers need to be present round the clock in the service of their employers. The study is based on primary data of 107 domestic maids randomly selected from different locations (Sectors) of Tricity; the detailed questionnaire was structured to collect the data. These full-time (live-in) domestic workers hail from nearby hindi speaking states like UP and Bihar either in first or in second generation. Usually they don’t have any skill and earns Rs. 6374 on an average excluding in kind payments accrue to them in terms of free accommodation.

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