Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Hoerder, Dirk.
2. Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van.
3. Neunsinger, Silke.

Description

1. xvi, 568 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, 'adopted' workers. Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part One). While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part Two). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban"--Provided by publisher.

Series statement

1. Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 18
2. Studies in global migration history, 2214-4676 ; volume 6

Uniform title

1. Studies in global social history ; v. 18.
2. Studies in global migration history ; v. 6.

Subject

1. Women household employees > History
2. Household employees > History
3. Women caregivers > History
4. Caregivers > History
5. Women household employees > Social conditions
6. Household employees > Social conditions
7. Women caregivers > Social conditions
8. Caregivers > Social conditions
9. World history
10. Labor > History

Call number

1. JFE 15-5178

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.

Publisher

1. Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 18
2. Studies in global migration history, 2214-4676 ; volume 6
3. Studies in global social history ; v. 18.
4. Studies in global migration history ; v. 6.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Hoerder, Dirk.
2. Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van.
3. Neunsinger, Silke.

Other form:

1. 9789004280144 (online)
2. (GyWOH)har150265732
3. 9789004280137 (hd.bd.)
4. (GyWOH)har150265733

LCCN

1. 2015010274

ISBN

1. 9789004280137 (hardback : acid-free paper)
2. 9004280138 (hardback : acid-free paper)
3. 9789004280144 (e-book)
4. 9004293299
5. 9789004293298

Research call number

1. JFE 15-5178