Tea plantation workers in India have historically been a part of the feminized workforce, constituting somewhat exceptionally formal labor in a country with high informalization of women's employment. In the past decade, however, a combined fallout of neo-liberalization and globalization contextualized within the local history of varying phases of incorporation, accumulation/dispossession and shifting relations of production brought about a crisis in the tea plantations leading to closures, retrenchment, and casualization. The women workers from tea plantations joined the burgeoning casualized urban labor force. Through ethnography and interviews I traced women workers from tea plantations in West Bengal, India, who migrated to the beauty industry in Hyderabad and Delhi-NCR. The paper focuses on the construction of women's labor in the beauty industry with continuities and contrasts from the tea plantations to understand the makings of gendered labor and skill. The women's frequent invocation of femininity as skill foregrounds the woman's body as central to woman's labor and the workplace but also provides a scope to unsettle understanding of femininity as a specific and naturalized concept. Using the lens of migration from one sector of feminized labor to another, this paper interrogates the production of the feminine worker and the workplace in different but related contexts. Their reflections on their work, skill, and workplace allows us an insight into the ways in which the body as the woman and the worker is deployed as skilled/natural and how they themselves co-construct, negotiate, and subvert the construction of femininity and feminine labor in the workplace.

印度的茶园工人历来都是女性化劳动力的一部分，在一个女性就业高度非正规化的国家中，她们构成了某种特殊的正规劳动力。然而，在过去的十年里，新自由化和全球化的综合影响，在当地不同阶段的合并、积累/剥夺和生产关系转变的历史背景下，给茶园带来了一场危机，导致茶园关闭、紧缩和破产。随意化。茶园女工加入了新兴的城市临时劳动力队伍。通过民族志和采访，我追踪了来自印度西孟加拉邦茶园的女工，她们移居到海得拉巴和德里国家首都区的美容行业。本文重点关注美容行业中女性劳动力的构建，与茶园的连续性和对比，以了解性别劳动力和技能的构成。女性经常将女性气质视为技能，这凸显了女性的身体是女性劳动和工作场所的核心，但也为人们对女性气质作为一个特定的、自然化的概念的理解提供了一个令人不安的范围。本文利用女性化劳动力从一个部门迁移到另一个部门的视角，探讨了不同但相关背景下女性工人的生产和工作场所。她们对自己的工作、技能和工作场所的反思使我们能够深入了解女性和工人的身体是如何被部署为熟练/自然的，以及她们自己如何共同构建、协商和颠覆女性气质和女性气质的构建。工作场所的女性劳动。