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The new maids : transnational women and the care economy / Helma Lutz ; translated by Deborah Shannon.
Van Pelt Library HQ1181.W46 L87 2011
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Lutz, Helma.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Employment--Western countries.
- Women immigrants.
- Women household employees--Western countries.
- Women household employees.
- Household employees--Western countries.
- Household employees.
- Foreign workers--Western countries.
- Foreign workers.
- Migrant labor--Western countries.
- Migrant labor.
- Sex role and globalization.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 241 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, [2011]
- Contents:
- The 'new' redistribution of domestic work
- The private household as a world market for female migrant labour
- Studying transnational lifestyles
- Domestic work - just an ordinary job?
- Exploitation or a community of confidantes? Emotional work in the household
- Transnational motherhood
- Being illegal
- Migrant women in the globalization trap?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848132887
- 1848132883
- OCLC:
- 753974343
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