The servant problem
Subtitle: domestic employment in a global economy
By: Rosie Cox.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781850436195; 9781850436201
Subjects: Domestics -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Description: "There are now more servants in Britain than in Victorian times. This explosion in paid domestic employment is part of a global trend. Women from countries such as the Philippines take on domestic jobs in order to support families at home, whilst students from Eastern Europe, the EU and Brazil work as au pairs in order to study English and improve their employment prospects. Rosie Cox's timely new work examines the reality of paid domestic labour in Britain today and explores the global trends that sustain this growth of domestic employment. She shows how the economy depends on women working outside the home, how it is the employment of domestic workers that helps make this possible and examines the experiences of both employers and employees who have joined this new global labour market."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-158) and index.