Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger ; contributors, Shireen Ally [and twenty one others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797260903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-28014-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (584 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Studies in Global Social History ; ; Volume 18; Studies in Global Migration History ; ; Volume 6
• Disciplina: 331.7/6164
• Soggetti: Women household employees - History; Household employees - History; Women caregivers - History; Caregivers - History; Women household employees - Social conditions; Household employees - Social conditions; Women caregivers - Social conditions; Caregivers - Social conditions; World history; Labor - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Dirk Hoerder , Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Silke Neunsinger -- Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk , Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder -- Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work / Raffaella Sarti -- Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach / Dirk Hoerder -- Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion / Dirk Hoerder -- Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time / Majda Hrženjak -- Ties ; that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington -- Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present / Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz -- Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers / Adéla Souralová -- Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra / Lokesh -- Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 / Yukari Takai and Mary Gene De Guzman -- Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -- Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 / Shireen Ally -- The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika / Robyn Allyce Pariser -- Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 / Andrew Urban -- “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 -- Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia / Bela Kashyap -- Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women / Sabrina Marchetti -- 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 -- Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco / R. David Goodman -- Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System / Magaly Rodríguez García -- Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework / Dimitris Kalantzopoulos -- Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction / Marina de Regt -- What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) / Jessica Richter.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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 One). 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 Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (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.