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Author Hew, Cheung Sim.

Title Women workers, migration and family in Sarawak / Hew Cheung Sim.

Publication Info. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 176 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; A methodological discussion; Doing fieldwork at home; The socio-economic context of change; To market, to market: rural urban migration and becoming modern; Overqualified and underpaid: wage work in the personal services sector; Sex and salaries: single women migrants in the city; Marriage, money and men: working mothers and their households; The hand that rocks the cradle leaves wage work: Bidayuh housewives; Holding their own: four women and their stories; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Based on research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, this book explores the changes in women's lifestyles from traditional rural lifestyles to modern urban ones.
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Subject Women -- Employment -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
Women -- Employment.
Malaysia -- Sarawak.
Women -- Malaysia -- Sarawak -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Minority women -- Employment -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
Minority women -- Employment.
Minority women.
Ethnology -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
Ethnology.
Rural-urban migration -- Malaysia -- Sarawak.
Rural-urban migration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Hew, Cheung Sim. Women workers, migration and family in Sarawak. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 0700717447 (DLC) 2002073385 (OCoLC)49942198
ISBN 0203221796 (electronic book)
9780203221792 (electronic book)
0700717447 (cloth)

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