Curriculum Care Work in India
Care Work in India
The paid and unpaid work of looking after people: India's domestic workers, their wages and rights, live-in migrant workers, placement agencies and apps, anganwadi and ASHA workers, creches and the Maternity Benefit Act, eldercare, home nursing, care and women's jobs, valuing unpaid care and investing in care.
- India's Domestic Workers How many people work in Indian homes as cooks, cleaners and nannies, who they are, and why domestic work is among the least protected jobs. 📄 Read-aloud
- Wages and Rights for Domestic Workers How domestic workers are paid, why India has no national law for them, how some states set minimum wages, and the push for social security. 📄 Read-aloud
- Live-In Workers and Migration How young women from Jharkhand, Odisha and the Northeast migrate to cities as live-in domestic workers, the role of placement agents, and risks of exploitation. 📄 Read-aloud
- Apps and Agencies for Household Help How apps and formal agencies are trying to organise domestic and home services, what they offer workers and households, and their limits. 📄 Read-aloud
- Anganwadi and ASHA Workers How millions of women working as anganwadi and ASHA workers deliver childcare, nutrition and health services, why they're called "volunteers", and their demands for fair pay. 📄 Read-aloud
- Creches and the Maternity Benefit Act How the 2017 amendment extended paid maternity leave to 26 weeks and required creches in larger workplaces, and the unintended effects on hiring women. 📄 Read-aloud
- Care Work in India: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on domestic workers, their rights, live-in migrants, apps and frontline care workers. 5 questions
- Caring for Older Indians How India's ageing population is changing eldercare as joint families shrink, the rise of old-age homes and home care, and laws on maintaining parents. 📄 Read-aloud
- Home Nurses and Care Attendants How demand for home nursing and patient attendants is growing, the skills gap and poor regulation, and India's role in supplying nurses abroad. 📄 Read-aloud
- Care Work and Women's Jobs How the burden of unpaid care keeps many Indian women out of paid work, and how childcare and care services could raise female employment. 📄 Read-aloud
- Valuing Unpaid Care How economists estimate the value of unpaid household and care work, why it's excluded from GDP, and ideas like satellite accounts. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Other Countries Organise Care How Nordic countries, East Asian economies and others provide childcare and eldercare, from public services to migrant domestic workers, and lessons for India. 📄 Read-aloud
- Investing in Care Why care is increasingly seen as essential infrastructure, what investments India could make, and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud