Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nede...
Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nede...
Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.
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Leiden Brill, 2015.
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G 2015/2718
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English
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pages cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History -- 2.Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work / Silke Neunsinger / Dirk Hoerder / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -...
Contents note continued: 8.Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers / Anna Kordasiewicz / Marta Kindler -- 9.Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers' Strike in Pune, Maharashtra / Adela...
Contents note continued: 14.Imperial Divisions of Labor Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907 / Robyn Allyce Pariser -- 15."The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages...
Contents note continued: 20.Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System / R. David Goodman -- 21.Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework / Magabl Rodriguez Garcia -- 22.Emp...
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Leiden Brill, 2015.
Date Published
2015.
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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 se...
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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.
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Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 18.
Studies in global migration history ; volume 6.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/2718
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74VK7pEoBAqO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7pEoBAqO
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9789004280137 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9789004293298 (paperback)
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331.7/6164
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991022709679702626
