This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for those working in factories, became intensified when entering the homes of others. The article develops its contribution by introducing the category of ‘coopted domestic labour’ and empirically illustrating its intersection with gender norms, Islam, forms of neo-bondage and structural considerations.

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Ghar Mein Kām Hai（家里有工作）

本文探讨了在北印度木工行业中，穆斯林工厂女工在雇主家中作为家务劳动的情况。民族志说明了考虑隐藏的家庭部门就业形式的重要性，在这些形式中，工人被招募到家务劳动中。对“雇佣家庭劳动力”的阐述对理解该部门的广度和范围具有重要意义，并有助于围绕其监管、定义、增长和女性化的辩论。女性穆斯林工厂工人并不认为“雇佣家务劳动”是一种生计“选择”，而是通过雇主的策略实现剥削，例如使用预付款、“新束缚”形式，以及通过家庭和家庭的结构连续性。将女性置于劳动等级底层的工业环境。它还涉及围绕 purdah（面纱）的声誉、性格和做法的复杂谈判，虽然这对在工厂工作的人来说已经是一个问题，但在进入他人家中时变得更加激烈。这篇文章通过介绍“雇佣家务劳动”这一类别，并从经验上说明它与性别规范、伊斯兰教、新奴役形式和结构性考虑因素的交集，从而发展了它的贡献。