From servants to workers : South African domestic workers and the democratic state / / Shireen Ally
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| Autore: |
Ally Shireen A
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| Titolo: |
From servants to workers : South African domestic workers and the democratic state / / Shireen Ally
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, : ILR Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.481640968 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women household employees - South Africa |
| Employee rights - South Africa | |
| Labor policy - South Africa | |
| Democratization - South Africa | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : maid with rights? -- Apartheid servitude. The Apartheid state and modern servitude ; Beyond the backyard : the shift to live-out and part-time work -- Turning "servants" into workers. Protecting "vulnerable" workers? : workers embrace and reject state power ; Intimate work : state power versus workers' power ; Paid to care : the dual-care regime -- Workers' struggles. Demobilizing domestic workers ; "Like the heart in the body" : manyanos and mother-workers -- Conclusion : formalization of paid domestic work versus socialization of reproduction. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women from poorer countries have braved treacherous journeys to richer countries to work as poorly paid domestic workers. Scholars and activists denounce compromised forms of citizenship that expose these. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From servants to workers |
| ISBN: | 0-8014-5827-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811592503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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