Saraswati Raju works at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her previous books include Colonial and Post-colonial Geographies of India and Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India. Santosh Jatrana works at the Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne.

• Preface; 1. Setting the backdrop Saraswati Raju and Santosh Jatrana; 2. Women workers in urban India Saraswati Raju and Debangana Bose; 3. Gendered vulnerabilities: work-life trajectories of female domestic workers in Jaipur Kaari Mattila; 4. Occupational domestication in a post-resettlement context: an analysis of women's work in Kannagi Nagar, Chennai Karen Coelho; 5. Old jobs in new forms: women's experiences in the housekeeping sector in Pune Kiran Mirchandani, Sanjukta Mukherjee and Shruti Tambe; 6. Persistent inequalities and deepened burden of work? An analysis of women's employment in Delhi Neetha N.; 7. Spare change for spare time? Homeworking women in Banaras Amit Basole; 8. Gender, work and space: home-based workers in the garment industry in Kolkata Swati Sachdev; 9. Labour control and responses: women workers in an apparel park in Kerala Neethi P.; 10. New urban economic spaces and the gendered world of work in Kolkata Tanusree Paul; 11. Gender equality and women's employment in the banking sector in India Supriti Bezbaruah; 12. Women body screeners and the securitization of space in Indian cities Winifred R. Poster.

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