Women workers, migration and family in Sarawak /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hew, Cheung Sim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Temas:
Women, Bidayuh > Malaysia > Sarawak > Social conditions.
Women > Employment > Malaysia > Sarawak.
Women > Malaysia > Sarawak > Social conditions.
Minority women > Employment > Malaysia > Sarawak.
Ethnology > Malaysia > Sarawak.
Rural-urban migration > Malaysia > Sarawak.
Femmes > Malaisie > Sarawak > Conditions sociales.
Femmes issues des minorités > Travail > Malaisie > Sarawak.
Ethnologie > Malaisie > Sarawak.
Exode rural > Malaisie > Sarawak.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Ethnology
Minority women > Employment
Rural-urban migration
Women > Employment
Women > Social conditions
Malaysia > Sarawak
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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