This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective...

Chapter 1: Background: Women and Work -- Chapter 2: Gender Inequality in Employment -- Chapter 3: Women’s Work in Modern Service Sector -- Chapter 4: Women in Modern Industrial Sector -- Chapter 5: Women in Domestic Work -- Chapter 6: Measurement Problem of Women’s Work -- Chapter 5: Way...