Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers
- ISBN-10
- 9004280146
- ISBN-13
- 9789004280144
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 584
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-27
- Publisher
- BRILL
Description
Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
A similar attitude towards the migration of sex workers seems to prevail in present-day discussions, ... This is partly a reflection of the fact that migrant women tend to end up relatively often in street prostitution and thus are in ...
-
Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia
By Reiko Ogawa, Raymond K.H. Chan, Akiko S. OishiThis collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.
-
Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies
By Junko Yamashita, Jieyu LiuThe Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.
-
The Practice of Global History: European Perspectives
By Matthias Middell2 (2000): 279–308; Jon Lewis, 'South African Labour History: A Historiographical Assessment', Radical History Review, no. ... and Silke Neunsinger (eds), Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers (Leiden: Brill, 2015).
-
Global Histories of Work
By Andreas Eckert203 204 Linden, “Historia do trabalho: o Velho, o Novo e o Global”, Revista Mundos do trabalho, 1 (2009), pp. 11–26. Other important methodological references are A. Lüdtke (ed.), The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical ...
-
Employers, Agencies and Immigration: Paying for Care
By Anna Triandafyllidou, Sabrina MarchettiExploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and ...
-
Domestic Workers of the World Unite!: A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights
By Jennifer N. FishThank you Eric C. Tammes, Eric Miller, Lee Slater, Vicki Nesper, Karin Dekker, Margaret Woermann, Kathy Williamson, Pumla GobodoMadikizela, and Sara Agah for inspiring in your being. To Jane and Bob DuComb, your vision for this book has ...
-
Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights
By Sabrina, Daniela, Marchetti... E. and Fish, J. (2015) 'Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO', in D. Hoerder, E. van Nederveen Meerkerk and S. Neunsinger (eds) Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers, ...
-
Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific
By Julia Martínez, Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel... pioneered by historians such as Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Ann Laura Stoler for the Netherlands East Indies, Nupur Chaudhuri for India, and Jackie Huggins, Victoria Haskins and Barry Higman for Australia.6 This may, in part, ...
-
Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador
By Erynn Masi de Casanova“Domestic Work-Affective Labor: On Feminization and the Coloniality of Labor. ... In Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers, edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, and Silke Neunsinger, 137–57.