Domestic Workers Talk
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Domestic Workers Talk
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Author : Kellie Gonçalves
language : en
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Release Date : 2024-01-16
Domestic Workers Talk written by Kellie Gonçalves and has been published by Channel View Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s Hispanophone and Lusophone employees. Power asymmetries in internal communication demonstrate the employer’s legitimated domination over her employees and her L1 Portuguese as a form of linguistic capital. Employees’ resourcefulness and multicompetence – rather than quantifiable levels of English-language proficiency – determine the extent to which they rely on language brokering to facilitate communication with their customers, directly impacting their agency. The book contributes to current debates on extra-linguistic modes of communication in multilingual settings and thematic analyses of care work, migration, communication and the role of English.
Our Homes Our Stories
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Author : Karien van Ditzhuijzen
language : en
Publisher: HOME - Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics
Release Date : 2018-03-11
Our Homes Our Stories written by Karien van Ditzhuijzen and has been published by HOME - Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Have you ever wondered what life is like for a migrant domestic worker in Singapore? In Our Homes, Our Stories women that work in Singapore as live-in domestic workers share their real-life stories. They write about rogue agents, abusive employers, complicated relationships, and that one thing they all suffer from the most: missing their families back home - in Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar and India. The women write about sacrifice, broken trust, exploitation, lack of food, salary deductions and constant scolding; but also about supportive employers, the love they have for the families they take care of, or how they use their time in Singapore as a stepping-stone to realise their dreams for the future. “It is my hope that these stories will prompt us, in this country, to do better as employers and to be better as humans.” Audrey Chin - Singaporean writer “I hope the readers will find my story inspirational and maybe even a little bit enlightening.” Jo Ann Dumlao - Domestic Worker and writer “A home is where you find unconditional love, compassion, support, where you forget your pain and fears; a safe haven where you get the courage to smile at life again.” Sai - Domestic Worker and writer “Hopefully our book will show that we are not only workers, but we are human beings.” Novia Arluma - Domestic Worker and writer All proceeds of this book go to HOME, a Singaporean charity that has supported and empowered migrant workers since 2004. All the writers in Our Homes, Our Stories are part of the HOME community, either as volunteers on their one day off, or as residents at HOME shelter for ill-treated domestic workers.
Silenced
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Author : Makeda Silvera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Silenced written by Makeda Silvera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
This is a book about the lives and struggles of West Indian women who are employed as domestic workers on Temporary Employment Visas in Canada. In it, ten women tell of their day to day struggles as Black working class women.
Silenced
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Author : Makeda Silvera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Silenced written by Makeda Silvera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Alien labor categories.
Domestic Days
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Author : Samita Sen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016
Domestic Days written by Samita Sen and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
This study is based on the narratives of part-time women domestic workers residing in two slum colonies in Kolkata who talk about their work and lives. By moving continuously between the workplace and the homes of the workers, it talks not only about labour but labouring lives. It also discusses public policy and politics with their historical negligence of this section of workers, as well as the recent attempts to give them voice and visibility.
The Discourse Of Powerlessness And Repression
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Author : Hans J. Ladegaard
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-10-26
The Discourse Of Powerlessness And Repression written by Hans J. Ladegaard and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-26 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.
Drawing on a large corpus of narratives recorded at a church shelter for abused domestic helpers in Hong Kong, this monograph explores how the women discursively construct themselves in sharing sessions with other helpers. They see themselves as ‘helpers’ who have come to Hong Kong to help their families, to help the people in the city, and to serve God. A wide variety of competing identities are constructed in the narratives: submissive helper, sacrificial mother, daughter and wife, and powerless traumatised victim, but also resourceful indignant migrant women who, through sharing and peer support, become empowered to fight against abusive employers. This book provides a detailed discourse analysis of the women’s narratives, but it also explores larger issues such as global migration, exploitation, language and power, abuse and the psychology of evil, intergroup communication, and peer support and empowerment.
Household Workers Unite
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Author : Premilla Nadasen
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Household Workers Unite written by Premilla Nadasen and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with History categories.
Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing. In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an historically misunderstood workforce. Resurrecting a little-known history of domestic-worker activism from the 1950s to the 1970s, Nadasen shows how these women were a far cry from the stereotyped passive and powerless victims; they were innovative labor organizers who tirelessly organized on buses and streets across the United States to bring dignity and legal recognition to their occupation. Dismissed by mainstream labor as “unorganizable,” African American household workers developed unique strategies for social change and formed unprecedented alliances with activists in both the women’s rights and the black freedom movements. Using storytelling as a form of activism and as means of establishing a collective identity as workers, these women proudly declared, “We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer.” With compelling personal stories of the leaders and participants on the front lines, Household Workers Unite gives voice to the poor women of color whose dedicated struggle for higher wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job created a sustained political movement that endures today. Winner of the 2016 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize
Migration Domestic Work And Affect
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Author : Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-12-22
Migration Domestic Work And Affect written by Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing upon several years of research in Germany, the UK, Spain, and Austria, and over 100 interviews with Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Chilean women working as domestic and care workers, this book examines hitherto unexplored areas of the interpersonal relationships between domestic and care workers and their employers.
Scripts Of Servitude
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Author : Beatriz P. Lorente
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Scripts Of Servitude written by Beatriz P. Lorente and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their linguistic repertoires, and in particular on English, as they cross geographical and social spaces. By showing how the transnational mobility of labor is dependent on the selection and performance of particular assemblages of linguistic resources that index migrants as labor and not as people, the book provides a powerful lens with which to examine how migration contributes to relationships of inequality and how such inequalities are produced and challenged on the terrain of language.
Working At Others Homes
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Author : Neetha N.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-22
Working At Others Homes written by Neetha N. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-22 with Wages categories.
The specificities of domestic work in relation to the workplace alongside the intersections of gender, class, and caste indicate a complex picture in India. Though domestic workers have become a significant workforce in all large cities and even in small towns, not much information on the specificity and complexity of the sector and its challenges is available. The papers in this volume address interesting dimensions of the domestic work section, including exclusion of domestic workers, the reluctance and discomfort in accepting domestic workers as "workers," alternative approaches to unionizing and the specific experiences in organizing taking up the challenge of negotiating personal relations, and the specificities of work. A critical analysis of state policies and regulation of domestic work alongside specific issues of legal intervention is also attempted in this collection--both specific to existing legislation as well as in the broad framework of labor as well as women's rights. This study emphasizes the need to locate undervaluation and poor status of domestic workers in the devaluation of house work within capitalist development, an issue that feminist scholarship has raised time and again.