Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers / / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger ; contributors, Shireen Ally [and twenty one others].

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History ; Volume 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Neunsinger, Silke,; Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van,; Hoerder, Dirk,; Ally, Shireen,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global social history ; Volume 18.; Studies in global migration history ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History /; Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work /; Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach /; Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion /; Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time /; Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil /; Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present /; Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers /; Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra /; Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 /; Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household /; Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 /; The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika /; Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 /; “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 /; Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia /; Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women /; 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 /; Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco /; Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System /; Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework /; Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction /; What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004280146
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger ; contributors, Shireen Ally [and twenty one others].

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, \'adopted\' workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.