Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers

28 February, 2023

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Edited by Maya John and Christa Wichterich

This volume analyses the history of healthcare work in India in light of the coronavirus pandemic, examining issues that care workers have to face, such as underpayment, long hours and social prejudice, as well as how liberalisation impacted contract labour and hierarchies in private and public hospitals.

Zubaan Academic, Rs 895, 342 pages

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