This book explores Indian women's economic contribution through paid and unpaid work in different sectors of the economy and society in extremely diverse life situations and geographical locations. It highlights gender implications of interlinkages between local, national, regional and global dimensions of women's paid and unpaid work in India. It encompasses a vast canvas of life worlds of working women in the metropolitan, urban, peri-urban, rural, tribal areas in manufacturing, agricultural, fisheries, sericulture, plantation and service sectors of the Indian economy. It provides nuanced insights into intersectional marginalities of caste, class, ethnicity, religion and gender. The chapters are based on primary data collection and triangulation of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. It presents the multiple marginalities of Indian women in the globalized political economy of the 21st century. It not only focuses on emerging issues but also suggests evidence-based policy imperatives. This book is an essential read for researchers, scholars, policymakers, practitioners and students of women/gender studies.

Introduction
Part I. Macroeconomy and women's work. Macroeconomic policies, neo-liberal economic globalisation and women in the workforce
Women's work : worker's agency and dignity of labour under lens
Where do migrant women work? Glimpses of paid and unpaid work among women migrant workers in informal sector in India
Part II. Women in the urban economy and regional diversity. Women's paid work as a bubble of empowerment : a case study of a social enterprise working with women artisans
Decoding professional women : an analysis of social structure and organizational role stress
Gender, labour, and the social reproduction of motherhood : a study of commercial surrogacy in Mumbai
The travails of women street entrepreneurs in Aizawl, Mizoram
Negotiating rights for street vendors : the importance of incorporating a gender perspective
Begging or caste-based urban occupations?
Making visible the invisible : women artists and herstory
Breaking boundaries- Women in non-traditional livelihoods as professional drivers
Part III. Women in agriculture and allied occupations. Women's participation in livestock raising- evidence from NSSO employment and unemployment surveys 1993-94 to 2011-12
Gender and livelihood in post cocoon activity : understanding patriarchal legitimisation of women's work in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
Precarity among women workforce in the handloom sector at Sualkuchi, Assam
Women's labour, self-help groups and microfinance in a neo-liberal world : an interrogation of the role of self-help groups in the rehabilitation of former Devadasis in Belgaum District in Kranataka
Economic crises and plantation labour : changing contours of women's work in the ten sector