DIALOGUE OVER A CUP OF COFFEE: INCREASING GENDER VISIBILITY WITHIN THE INFORMAL SECTOR
Keywords:
women, informal sector, critical autoethnography, race and cultureAbstract
Women are usually associated with home based businesses and informal sector. They are able to combine household work with paid work in the informal sector. Further most of the informal work is undertaken within the immigrant communities in USA. Research has been undertaken on different aspects of gender within the informal sector. However there is still scope to further justify the “gender-class-race” dimension and provide insights about the blurring home-work boundaries. This paper will argue about the suitability of a critical autoethnography or reflexive ethnography to study “gender – class – race” intersections within the informal sector.
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