Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoerder, Dirk.

Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van

Neunsinger, Silke

John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Studies in global social history ; 1874-6705 v. 18.

Studies in global migration history ; 2214-4676 v. 6.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 18

Studies in global migration history, 2214-4676 ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women household employees--History.

Women household employees.

Household employees--History.

Household employees.

Women caregivers--History.

Women caregivers.

Caregivers--History.

Caregivers.

Women household employees--Social conditions.

Household employees--Social conditions.

Women caregivers--Social conditions.

Caregivers--Social conditions.

World history.

Labor--History.

Labor.

History.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 568 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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.

Contents:

1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Meerkerk, Elise van Nederveen, Silke Neunsinger Neunsinger, Silke, Dirk Hoerder Hoerder, Dirk 1

2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work / Raffaella Sarti Sarti, Raffaella 25

3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers' Migrations: A Global Approach / Dirk Hoerder Hoerder, Dirk 61

Part 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion

4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion / Dirk Hoerder Hoerder, Dirk 113

5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time / Majda Hrzenjak Hrzenjak, Majda 120

6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth, Jaira J. Harrington Harrington, Jaira J. 137

7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present / Marta Kindler Kindler, Marta, Anna Kordasiewicz Kordasiewicz, Anna 158

8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers / Adéla Souralová Souralová, Adéla 182

9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers' Strike in Pune, Maharashtra / Lokesh 202

10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 / Yukari Takai Takai, Yukari, Mary Gene De Guzman Guzman, Mary Gene De 222

Part 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household

11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Meerkerk, Elise van Nederveen 245

12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914 / Shireen Ally Ally, Shireen 254

13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika / Robyn Allyce Pariser Pariser, Robyn Allyce 271

14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907 / Andrew Urban Urban, Andrew 296

15 "The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s-1930s / Victoria K. Haskins Haskins, Victoria K. 323

16 Who's in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia / Bela Kashyap Kashyap, Bela 346

17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of "Coloniality": Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women / Sabrina Marchetti Marchetti, Sabrina 366

Part 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century

18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction / Silke Neunsinger Neunsinger, Silke 389

19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco / R. David Goodman Goodman, R. David 400

20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System / Magaly Rodríguez García García, Magaly Rodríguez 428

21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework / Dimitris Kalantzopoulos Kalantzopoulos, Dimitris 451

22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction / Marina de Regt Regt, Marina de 465

23 What is "Domestic Service" Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918-1938) / Jessica Richter Richter, Jessica 484

24 "The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924-1952" / Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay 511

25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO / Eileen Boris Boris, Eileen, Jennifer N. Fish Fish, Jennifer N. 530.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9004280138

9789004280137

9004293299

9789004293298

OCLC:

904036827

Publisher Number:

99966556358