Aleena Din, 'Redefining ‘work’: British-Pakistani women & their Relationship with Labour', 23/11/22

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Redefining ‘work’: British-Pakistani women and their Relationship with Formal and Informal Labour.

The matrix of responsibilities that constitute working-class women’s everyday state are often overlooked. During the process of collecting the oral testimony of British-Pakistani women, it became evident that definitions of employment related to the money economy were insufficient in capturing my interviewees' varied work experiences. British-Pakistani women from Middlesbrough and Oldham revealed that whilst formal waged labour in a workplace was not particularly popular - often because of exclusionary employment practices - they all undertook work which was integral to Pakistani settlement in Britain. This included self-employment, voluntary labour, home-based employment and unpaid caring responsibilities. This paper will analyse British-Pakistani women’s everyday labour activities, in turn offering new ways in which to conceptualise ‘work’.

Aleena Din is a researcher in the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research is an oral history project on the migration, settlement and work experiences of British-Pakistani women, between 1962-2002. She is currently a researcher for a project on the long history of race, resistance and belonging at the University of Oxford, which will culminate in an edited volume and digital resources.

This event is hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies, Lancaster University