https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article10029.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article10029.html 2020-10-24T19:09:09Z text/html en Sujata Gothoskar <p>It is by now widely acknowledged in many circles that domestic work is work that is crucial to the maintenance and reproduction of society and yet is the most neglected area of work and is not even officially recognised as work. In the recent pandemic, while some work like that related to the health care sector was at the forefront of social and economic life, other work like auto or garment production almost ground to a total halt all over the world. One sort of work that was slowly and (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique115.html" rel="directory">2020</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9989.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9989.html 2020-10-09T21:43:22Z text/html en Sujata Gothoskar <p>'My mother was married off when she was 9 -10 years old. I was married off when I was 13 or so. I had to marry my daughter off when she was 15 or 16', says Kusum (name changed). Kusum is a sugarcane cutter from Beed, who has to migrate every year from her drought-prone village in Marathwada to the lush sugarcane fields in Western Maharashtra. Kusum's mother was a sugarcane cutter too and so is Kusum's daughter. 'This is the third generation in our family who are forced to live this life', (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique115.html" rel="directory">2020</a>