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50 Soc. Change 7 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge50 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Introduction: Changing Social Change 50(I) 7-11,2020 Contours of Paid and Reprntsande fo°2 Um nIlsagepubcojRournals-permissions-inda Unpaid W ork of W omen insgpDol:0 lo.I 77/oo17/04,oss90zl,,oo1901 4, journals.sagepub.com/home/sch $SAGE Vibhuti Patel' It gives me a great sense of fulfilment that our collective effort has resulted in this Special Number of Social Change on Women's World of Work-Paid and Unpaid (March 2020). Overarching concerns with respect to workforce participation of women in the twenty-first century have been changing labour processes, labour/employment relations, labour standards in different sectors of the economy and the current discourse is on implications of Industry 4.0 on 'Future of Work', platform-based employment and feminisation of a care economy. Only a minuscule proportion of women in the world economy is in the organised sector with relatively better standards of social security and social protection. The rest face back-breaking, long hours of dead-end work without any chances of upward social and economic mobility, mostly in a precarious working situation. There is south in the North and north in the South. Thus, it is not only in Africa, Latin America and Asia that women workers face inhuman work condition and below subsistence wages, but non-white women in the workforce in the industrialised world also face the same predicament as the footloose precariat in the informal economy. The world capitalism has found coloured women as 'the last colony' (Mies, Bennholdt-Thomsen, & von Werlhof, 1988) for capitalist accumulation. In poverty groups, self-employed women end up self-exploiting as the returns for their hard work are deplorably low. Even in sunrise industries such as information technology, business process outsourcing, knowledge process outsourcing, medical transcription and transliteration, most women are recruited in the lowest rung of the hierarchy as 'Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Naoroji Campus, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Corresponding author Vibhuti Patel, Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Naoroji Campus, Deonar Farm Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400008, India. Email vibhuti.np@gmail.com

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