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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers

Title
Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.
Publication
Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Hoerder, Dirk.
  • Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van.
  • Neunsinger, Silke.
Description
xvi, 568 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
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. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
  • Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 18
  • Studies in global migration history, 2214-4676 ; volume 6
Uniform Title
  • Studies in global social history ; v. 18.
  • Studies in global migration history ; v. 6.
Subject
  • Women household employees > History
  • Household employees > History
  • Women caregivers > History
  • Caregivers > History
  • Women household employees > Social conditions
  • Household employees > Social conditions
  • Women caregivers > Social conditions
  • Caregivers > Social conditions
  • World history
  • Labor > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 15-5178
ISBN
  • 9789004280137 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  • 9004280138 (hardback : acid-free paper)
  • 9004293299
  • 9789004293298
  • 9789004280144 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015010274
OCLC
904036827
Title
Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.
Publisher
Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 18
Studies in global migration history, 2214-4676 ; volume 6
Studies in global social history ; v. 18.
Studies in global migration history ; v. 6.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hoerder, Dirk.
Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van.
Neunsinger, Silke.
Other Form:
9789004280144 (online)
(GyWOH)har150265732
9789004280137 (hd.bd.)
(GyWOH)har150265733
Research Call Number
JFE 15-5178
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