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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / Hoerder, Dirk (1943-); Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van (1975); Neunsinger, Silke.
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Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers
Wydawnictwo
Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2015
ISBN
9789004293298;9789004280144
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Acknowledgements IX
Illustrations and Figures X
List of Contributors XI
1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History 1
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder
2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work 25
Raffaella Sorti
3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach 61
Dirk Hoerder
Part 1. Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion
4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion 113
Dirk Hoerder
5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time 120
Majda Hrzenjak
6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil 137
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington
7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158
Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz
8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Tum of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers 182
Adéla Souralová
9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra 202
Lokesh
10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 222
Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman
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 245
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914 254
Shireen Ally
13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika 271
Robyn Allyce Pariser
14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907 296
Andrew Urban
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 323
Victoria K. Haskins
16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia 346
Bela Kashyap
17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of „Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women 366
Sabrina Marchetti
Part 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 of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction 389
Silke Neunsinger
19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco 400
R. David Goodman
20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System 428
Magaly Rodríguez García
21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework 451
Dimitris Kalantzopoulos
22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction 465
Marina de Regt
23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918-1938) 484
Jessica Richter
24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924-1952” 511
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO 530
Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish
Index 553
Illustrations and Figures X
List of Contributors XI
1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History 1
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder
2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work 25
Raffaella Sorti
3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach 61
Dirk Hoerder
Part 1. Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion
4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion 113
Dirk Hoerder
5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time 120
Majda Hrzenjak
6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil 137
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington
7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158
Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz
8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Tum of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers 182
Adéla Souralová
9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra 202
Lokesh
10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 222
Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman
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 245
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652-1914 254
Shireen Ally
13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika 271
Robyn Allyce Pariser
14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870-1907 296
Andrew Urban
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 323
Victoria K. Haskins
16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia 346
Bela Kashyap
17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of „Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women 366
Sabrina Marchetti
Part 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 of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction 389
Silke Neunsinger
19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco 400
R. David Goodman
20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System 428
Magaly Rodríguez García
21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework 451
Dimitris Kalantzopoulos
22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction 465
Marina de Regt
23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918-1938) 484
Jessica Richter
24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924-1952” 511
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO 530
Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish
Index 553