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The Resource Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers, edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger

Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers, edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger

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Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, 'adopted' workers. Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part One). While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part Two). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background.--
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eng
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xvi, 568 pages
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  • 1. Combining work and emotions : strategies, agency, self-assertion
  • 2. Domesticwork in the colonial context : race, color, and power in the household
  • 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
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9789004280137
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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers
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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers
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edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger
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Language
eng
Summary
Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, 'adopted' workers. Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part One). While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part Two). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background.--
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Hoerder, Dirk
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331.76164
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illustrations
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non fiction
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  • Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van
  • Neunsinger, Silke
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  • Studies in global social history
  • Studies in global migration history
Series volume
  • 18
  • 6
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  • Women household employees
  • Household employees
  • Women caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Women household employees
  • Household employees
  • Women caregivers
  • Caregivers
  • Labor
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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers, edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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rdacarrier.
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
Contents
1. Combining work and emotions : strategies, agency, self-assertion -- 2. Domesticwork in the colonial context : race, color, and power in the household -- 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
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FIEb17731549
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25 cm.
Extent
xvi, 568 pages
Isbn
9789004280137
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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  • n
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illustrations
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(OCoLC)904036827
Label
Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers, edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
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  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
1. Combining work and emotions : strategies, agency, self-assertion -- 2. Domesticwork in the colonial context : race, color, and power in the household -- 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
Control code
FIEb17731549
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xvi, 568 pages
Isbn
9789004280137
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)904036827

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