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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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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.

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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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