Organising Domestic Workers in Pune City

This paper traces the development of the Pune Zilla Ghar Kamgar Sanghatana and the strategies it adopted to create worker consciousness among domestic workers. It also examines the nature of the demand for and supply of paid domestic work in Pune, besides discussing the plight of these workers. Further, in recent years, state policies have made formal commitments to worker welfare without actually providing anything substantive to domestic workers.