Doing the Dirty Work?
Subtitle: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA by St Martin's Press
Published: May 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781856497619
Subjects: Labour economics; Political science & theory; Women's studies; Work & labour; Sociology; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political Science; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Labor; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Alien labor; Domestics
Description: "There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges both the industrial democracies' own self-image as equitable societies generally, and feminism in particular."--Jacket.