Travelling to Work

<strong>JNIAS Fellows' Seminar Series</strong> <strong>Travelling to Work</strong> <strong>Prof Shirin M. Rai</strong> University of Warwick <strong>22nd February, 2016</strong> This paper focuses on a key aspect of work and everyday life - travelling to work. The time, effort, organisation, risk and anxiety that accompanies travel is often overlooked in analyses of work. Of course, the issues for those who live far from work and those who live close to work are different; a complex and nuanced analysis is needed if we are to understand the place of travel in work. Based on a small sample study in New Delhi, I suggest that we to think through how, together with unpaid social reproductive work, travelling to work is also unpaid labour that subsidises the urban economy in neoliberal cities.