Urvashi Soni‐sinha
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Urvashi Soni‐sinha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Urvashi |
| FAMILY NAME | Soni‐sinha |
| SIGNATURE | SINHA U S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Methodological K/nots
This article traces methodological discussions of a multidisciplinary team of researchers located in universities and community settings in Ontario. The group designed and conducted a research project on the enforcement of labor standards in Ontario, Canada. Discussions of methodological possibilities often began with “nots”—that is, consensus on methodological approaches that the team collectively rejected. Out of these discussions emerged sugge…
Intersectionality, subjectivity, collectivity and the union
The study uses narrative analysis to understand the workers discursive constructions of their classed, gendered and racialized subjective identities and their investments into the collectivity of the union in the context of the lock-out. It goes beyond the Marxian analysis and uses poststructural feminist analysis to understand how the intersectional subjective identities are constituted and their interrelationship to the investments in and const…
Dirty Work?’ Gender, Race and the Union in Industrial Cleaning
The study uses an eclectic framework and through an intersectional analysis and use of narratives explores the meaning of janitorial work, the gender division of labour ( GDL ), the unions and organizing for janitors engaged in industrial cleaning for a big cleaning company, P luto, in T oronto. Pluto was organized by the S ervice E mployees I nternational U nion ( SEIU ) in 2006. The study is based on the organizing drive for P luto and uses par…
Invisible women
The paper is an ethnographic study examining the gendering of jewellery production in the villages of Medinipur, West Bengal, India. The jewellery (primarily hand woven silver chains) is marketed nationally and internationally and the villages are linked to the domestic and the global markets through a series of subcontractors. The paper is a critical analysis and deconstruction of the gendered division of labour where women's work in chain-weavi…
Flexible work, gender and globalised production
The restructuring of world economies in the 1980s and the 1990s has given rise to debates around globalisation, feminisation and flexibility. In the light of these macroeconomic debates, this article analyses the relationship of feminisation and masculinisation to flexibility in the microeconomic context of jewellery production in the Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ) and Delhi. It compares 'flexibility' in the handmade jewellery sector, which …
Dynamics of the 'field
The article contributes to the epistemological debates in feminism through the analysis of multisited research on jewellery production in India. The multisited research focuses on different localities - Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ), Delhi and villages of Medinipur having direct and indirect links to the global market. It analyses how the multiple sites structured by gender, class and age hierarchies reveal the multiple and fluid standpoint…
Where Are the Women? Gender, Labor, and Discourse in the Noida Export Processing Zone and Delhi
Export processing zones (EPZs) are like islands of globalization. Much of the literature on EPZs and export-oriented industries (EOIs) notes a preponderance of women who are constructed as “cheap,” “nimble fingered,” and “docile” labor. This literature is dominated by socialist feminist thinkers, and this paper argues that there is a need to incorporate the insights of postmodern feminist thinkers. The article focuses on the role that language, d…
Dirty Work?’ Gender, Race and the Union in Industrial Cleaning
The study uses an eclectic framework and through an intersectional analysis and use of narratives explores the meaning of janitorial work, the gender division of labour ( GDL ), the unions and organizing for janitors engaged in industrial cleaning for a big cleaning company, P luto, in T oronto. Pluto was organized by the S ervice E mployees I nternational U nion ( SEIU ) in 2006. The study is based on the organizing drive for P luto and uses par…
Dynamics of the 'field
The article contributes to the epistemological debates in feminism through the analysis of multisited research on jewellery production in India. The multisited research focuses on different localities - Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ), Delhi and villages of Medinipur having direct and indirect links to the global market. It analyses how the multiple sites structured by gender, class and age hierarchies reveal the multiple and fluid standpoint…
Methodological K/nots
This article traces methodological discussions of a multidisciplinary team of researchers located in universities and community settings in Ontario. The group designed and conducted a research project on the enforcement of labor standards in Ontario, Canada. Discussions of methodological possibilities often began with “nots”—that is, consensus on methodological approaches that the team collectively rejected. Out of these discussions emerged sugge…
Invisible women
The paper is an ethnographic study examining the gendering of jewellery production in the villages of Medinipur, West Bengal, India. The jewellery (primarily hand woven silver chains) is marketed nationally and internationally and the villages are linked to the domestic and the global markets through a series of subcontractors. The paper is a critical analysis and deconstruction of the gendered division of labour where women's work in chain-weavi…
Where Are the Women? Gender, Labor, and Discourse in the Noida Export Processing Zone and Delhi
Export processing zones (EPZs) are like islands of globalization. Much of the literature on EPZs and export-oriented industries (EOIs) notes a preponderance of women who are constructed as “cheap,” “nimble fingered,” and “docile” labor. This literature is dominated by socialist feminist thinkers, and this paper argues that there is a need to incorporate the insights of postmodern feminist thinkers. The article focuses on the role that language, d…
Where Are the Women? Gender, Labor, and Discourse in the Noida Export Processing Zone and Delhi
Export processing zones (EPZs) are like islands of globalization. Much of the literature on EPZs and export-oriented industries (EOIs) notes a preponderance of women who are constructed as “cheap,” “nimble fingered,” and “docile” labor. This literature is dominated by socialist feminist thinkers, and this paper argues that there is a need to incorporate the insights of postmodern feminist thinkers. The article focuses on the role that language, d…
Dynamics of the 'field
The article contributes to the epistemological debates in feminism through the analysis of multisited research on jewellery production in India. The multisited research focuses on different localities - Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ), Delhi and villages of Medinipur having direct and indirect links to the global market. It analyses how the multiple sites structured by gender, class and age hierarchies reveal the multiple and fluid standpoint…
Flexible work, gender and globalised production
The restructuring of world economies in the 1980s and the 1990s has given rise to debates around globalisation, feminisation and flexibility. In the light of these macroeconomic debates, this article analyses the relationship of feminisation and masculinisation to flexibility in the microeconomic context of jewellery production in the Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ) and Delhi. It compares 'flexibility' in the handmade jewellery sector, which …
Invisible women
The paper is an ethnographic study examining the gendering of jewellery production in the villages of Medinipur, West Bengal, India. The jewellery (primarily hand woven silver chains) is marketed nationally and internationally and the villages are linked to the domestic and the global markets through a series of subcontractors. The paper is a critical analysis and deconstruction of the gendered division of labour where women's work in chain-weavi…
Intersectionality, subjectivity, collectivity and the union
The study uses narrative analysis to understand the workers discursive constructions of their classed, gendered and racialized subjective identities and their investments into the collectivity of the union in the context of the lock-out. It goes beyond the Marxian analysis and uses poststructural feminist analysis to understand how the intersectional subjective identities are constituted and their interrelationship to the investments in and const…
Dirty Work?’ Gender, Race and the Union in Industrial Cleaning
The study uses an eclectic framework and through an intersectional analysis and use of narratives explores the meaning of janitorial work, the gender division of labour ( GDL ), the unions and organizing for janitors engaged in industrial cleaning for a big cleaning company, P luto, in T oronto. Pluto was organized by the S ervice E mployees I nternational U nion ( SEIU ) in 2006. The study is based on the organizing drive for P luto and uses par…
Methodological K/nots
This article traces methodological discussions of a multidisciplinary team of researchers located in universities and community settings in Ontario. The group designed and conducted a research project on the enforcement of labor standards in Ontario, Canada. Discussions of methodological possibilities often began with “nots”—that is, consensus on methodological approaches that the team collectively rejected. Out of these discussions emerged sugge…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (3 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (3 works)