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Servants of globalization : women, migration and domestic work / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women household employees.
- Foreign workers, Filipino.
- Filipinos--Employment--Foreign countries.
- Filipinos.
- Filipinos--Employment.
- Women--Employment--Foreign countries.
- Women.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Women--Employment.
- Foreign countries.
- Philippines--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- A poignant, often troubling, study of Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking work of the global economy in countries throughout the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804739218
- 0804739226
- OCLC:
- 45087188
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