TY - BOOK ID - 686370 TI - Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers AU - Neunsinger, Silke AU - Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van AU - Hoerder, Dirk AU - Ally, Shireen PY - 2015 SN - 9789004293298 9789004280144 9004280146 9004280138 9789004280137 9004293299 PB - Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Social stratification KW - World history KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Women household employees KW - Household employees KW - Women caregivers KW - Caregivers KW - Labor KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - E-books KW - World history. KW - Universal history KW - Care givers KW - Carers KW - Family caregivers KW - Home health caregivers KW - Informal caregivers KW - Volunteers KW - Domestic employees KW - Domestic service employees KW - Domestic service workers KW - Domestics KW - Household staff KW - Household workers KW - Servants KW - Service employees, Domestic KW - Service workers, Domestic KW - Employees KW - Housemaids KW - Maids, House KW - Women domestics KW - Women servants KW - History. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:686370 AB - 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. ER -