TY  - GEN
AU  - Ramaswamy,Krithi D.
TI  - The Making of Good Work and Good People: Ethical liberation in and through ASHA work 
SN  - 978-2-940600-56-4
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Genève
PB  - Graduate Institute Publications
KW  - Sociology & Anthropology
KW  - Public Environmental & Occupational Health
KW  - culture religion and identity
KW  - development policies and practices
KW  - rural development
KW  - discrimination
KW  - non-state actors and civil society
KW  - poverty
KW  - public management
KW  - health policies
KW  - work
KW  - women
KW  - gender
N1  - Ebook
N2  -  This ePaper critically examines community health schemes in India through the lens of one of the largest cadres of community health workers in the world, the Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHAs. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with a group of ASHAs in New Delhi, India, this study aims to understand how work, labour, and volunteerism are understood in community health schemes. By mobilising sociological and anthropological literature on work, volunteerism and gendered frameworks of care, this research demonstrates how ideologies of altruistic service and morality are embedded in state narratives of social welfare and are used to undervalue the work of women from marginalised communities within public health care systems. At the same time, by centring the narratives of the ASHA workers themselves, this research also uncovers the complex social ties and narratives of community and care that the workers create to negotiate their precarious working conditions and advocate for their rights and their position within spaces of informalised formal work. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations
UR  - https://books.openedition.org/iheid/12453
ER  -