Multinational Maids
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Multinational Maids
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Author : Anju Mary Paul
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-28
Multinational Maids written by Anju Mary Paul and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Explores how global markets, middlemen and destination aspirations drive the 'stepwise migrations' of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers.
Global Woman
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Global Woman written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny--or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid--eases a "care deficit" in rich countries, while her absence creates a "care deficit" back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, Global Woman offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale. In fifteen vivid essays-- of which only four have been previously published-- by a diverse and distinguished group of writers, collected and introduced by bestselling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this important anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from the third world is no longer gold or silver, but love.
Global Woman
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2004
Global Woman written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.
Maid To Order In Hong Kong
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Author : Nicole Constable
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2007
Maid To Order In Hong Kong written by Nicole Constable and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
"An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, including the strategies of resistance developed by the workers." China Journal"
The New Maids
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Author : Professor Helma Lutz
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-08-11
The New Maids written by Professor Helma Lutz and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-11 with Social Science categories.
The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology.
Global Cinderellas
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Author : Pei-Chia Lan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-03
Global Cinderellas written by Pei-Chia Lan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the 1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household workers at a rapidly increasing rate. Many come from the Philippines and Indonesia. Pei-Chia Lan interviewed and spent time with dozens of Filipina and Indonesian domestics working in and around Taipei as well as many of their Taiwanese employers. On the basis of the vivid ethnographic detail she collected, Lan provides a nuanced look at how boundaries between worker and employer are maintained and negotiated in private households. She also sheds light on the fate of the workers, “global Cinderellas” who seek an escape from poverty at home only to find themselves treated as disposable labor abroad. Lan demonstrates how economic disparities, immigration policies, race, ethnicity, and gender intersect in the relationship between the migrant workers and their Taiwanese employers. The employers are eager to flex their recently acquired financial muscle; many are first-generation career women as well as first-generation employers. The domestics are recruited from abroad as contract and “guest” workers; restrictive immigration policies prohibit them from seeking permanent residence or transferring from one employer to another. They care for Taiwanese families’ children, often having left their own behind. Throughout Global Cinderellas, Lan pays particular attention to how the women she studied identify themselves in relation to “others”—whether they be of different classes, nationalities, ethnicities, or education levels. In so doing, she offers a framework for thinking about how migrant workers and their employers understand themselves in the midst of dynamic transnational labor flows.
Domestic Workers Of The World Unite
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Author : Jennifer N. Fish
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2017-07-25
Domestic Workers Of The World Unite written by Jennifer N. Fish and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-25 with Social Science categories.
From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often ‘off the books,’ working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal protections or benefits such as union membership, health care, vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their employers for room and board as well as their immigration status, creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, plus interviews with a number of key movement leaders and domestic workers, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change. The book takes us to Geneva, where domestic workers organized, negotiated, and successfully received the first-ever granting of international standards for care work protections by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization. This landmark victory not only legitimizes the importance of these household laborers’ demands for respect and recognition, but also signals the need to consider human rights as a central component of workers’ rights. Domestic Workers of the World Unite! chronicles how a group with so few resources could organize and act within the world’s most powerful international structures and give voice to the wider global plight of migrants, women, and informal workers. For anyone with a stake in international human and workers’ rights, this is a critical and inspiring model of civil society organizing.
Domestic Workers Across The World
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Author : Malte Luebker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Domestic Workers Across The World written by Malte Luebker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.
This publication sheds light on the magnitude of domestic work, a sector often "invisible" behind the doors of private households and unprotected by national legislation.The adoption of new international labour standards on domestic work (Convention No. 189 and its accompanying Recommendation No. 201) by the ILO at its 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011 represents a key milestone on the path to the realisation of decent work for domestic workers. This volume presents national statistics and new global and regional estimates on the number of domestic workers. It shows that domestic workers represent a significant share of the labour force worldwide and that domestic work is an important source of wage employment for women, especially in Latin America and Asia. It also examines the extent of inclusion or exclusion of domestic workers from key working conditions laws. In particular, it analyses how many domestic workers are covered by working time provisions, minimum wage legislation and maternity protection. The results demonstrate that under current national laws, substantial gaps in protection still remain. The volume concludes with a summary of the main findings and a reflection on the relevance of the newly adopted international standards to extend legal protection to domestic workers.
Domestic Workers Count Global Data On An Often Invisible Sector
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Author : Helen Schwenken
language : en
Publisher: kassel university press GmbH
Release Date : 2011
Domestic Workers Count Global Data On An Often Invisible Sector written by Helen Schwenken and has been published by kassel university press GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Household employees categories.
Maid In China
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Author : Wanning Sun
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-01-21
Maid In China written by Wanning Sun and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-21 with Business & Economics categories.
This compelling book examines the mobility of domestic workers, at both material and symbolic levels, and of the formation and social mobility of the urban middle-class through its consumption of domestic service.