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1 online resource (584 pages). |
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Studies in Global Migration History
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Studies in global migration history.
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Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations and Figures; List of Contributors; 1: Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History; 2: Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work; 3: Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers'Migrations: A Global Approach; PART 1: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion. |
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4: Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion5: Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time; 6: Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil; 7: Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present; 8: Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of theTwenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers. |
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9: Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers'Strike in Pune, Maharashtra10: Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010; PART 2: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household; 11: Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household; 12: Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914. |
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13: The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika14: Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907; 15: "The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s-1930s; 16: Who's in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia. |
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17: Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of "Coloniality": Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese WomenPART 3: From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century; 18: From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role ofInternational Bodies, States and Elites for ChangingConditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction; 19: Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco. |
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20: Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System. |
| Summary |
Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women household employees -- History.
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Women household employees. |
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History. |
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Household employees -- History.
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Household employees. |
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Women caregivers -- History.
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Women caregivers. |
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Caregivers -- History.
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Caregivers. |
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Women household employees -- Social conditions.
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Women household employees -- Social conditions. |
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Household employees -- Social conditions.
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Household employees -- Social conditions. |
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Women caregivers -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Caregivers -- Social conditions.
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World history.
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World history. |
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Labor -- History.
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Labor. |
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Electronic books.
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Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van.
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Neunsinger, Silke.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hoerder, Dirk. Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers. Leiden : BRILL, ©2015 9789004280137 |
| ISBN |
9789004280144 |
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9004280146 |
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9789004280137 |
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9004280138 |
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9004293299 |
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9789004293298 |
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