Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers

The Resource 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

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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331.76164

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non fiction

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bibliography

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Studies in global social history
Studies in global migration history

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