ISBN:
9789004280137
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (584 p)
Series Statement:
Studies in Global Migration History Ser.
Series Statement:
Studies in Global Migration History
Series Statement:
Studies in Global Social History Volume 18
Parallel Title:
Print version Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers
DDC:
331.7/6164
Keywords:
Caregivers ; History
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Caregivers ; Social conditions
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Household employees ; History
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Household employees ; Social conditions
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Labor ; History
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Women caregivers ; History
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Women caregivers ; Social conditions
;
Women household employees ; History
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Women household employees ; Social conditions
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World history
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Figures; List of Contributors; 1: Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History; 2: Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work; 3: Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers'Migrations: A Global Approach; PART 1: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion
Description / Table of Contents:
4: Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion5: Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time; 6: Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil; 7: Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present; 8: Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of theTwenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers
Description / Table of Contents:
9: Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers'Strike in Pune, Maharashtra10: Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010; PART 2: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household; 11: Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household; 12: Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914
Description / Table of Contents:
13: The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika14: Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907; 15: "The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s-1930s; 16: Who's in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia
Description / Table of Contents:
17: Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of "Coloniality": Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese WomenPART 3: From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century; 18: From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role ofInternational Bodies, States and Elites for ChangingConditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction; 19: Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco
Description / Table of Contents:
20: Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System
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