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This talk examines how working-class households in Gurgaon’s urban villages are sustained through gendered labor, negotiations of precarity, and intergenerational dynamics. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it highlights how women’s reproductive and income-generating labor stabilize households, even as adolescent children enter platform and gig economy work, diverging from parental labor trajectories. It shows how urban transformation and inequality are mediated in domestic life. Arguing that household-level relational labor—shaped by gendered and generational power—is a vital but overlooked aspect of informality, this presentation rethinks how urban life is reproduced under conditions of precarity and uncertainty in the Global South.