From servants to workers
Subtitle: South African domestic workers and the democratic state
By: Shireen Ally
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Scottsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781869141882
Notes: First published by Cornell University Press, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : maid with rights?; title: Apartheid servitude. The Apartheid state and modern servitude ; Beyond the backyard : the shift to live-out and part-time work; title: 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; title: Workers' struggles. Demobilizing domestic workers ; "Like the heart in the body" : manyanos and mother-workers; title: Conclusion : formalization of paid domestic work versus socialization of reproduction.