From Servants to Workers : South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ally, Shireen A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dienstmädchen
Hausgehilfin
Soziale Situation
Women household employees.
Labor policy.
Employee rights.
Democratization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Democratisation > Afrique du Sud.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > Afrique du Sud.
Employees de maison > Afrique du Sud.
Democratization > South Africa.
Labor policy > South Africa.
Employee rights > South Africa.
Women household employees > South Africa.
Südafrika <Staat>
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : maid with rights?
  • Apartheid servitude. The Apartheid state and modern servitude ; Beyond the backyard : the shift to live-out and part-time work
  • Turning "servants" into workers. Protecting "vulnerable" workers? : workers embrace and reject state power ; Intimate work : state power versus workers' power ; Paid to care : the dual-care regime
  • Workers' struggles. Demobilizing domestic workers ; "Like the heart in the body" : manyanos and mother-workers
  • Conclusion : formalization of paid domestic work versus socialization of reproduction.

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