The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy

ISBN-13: 9781848132887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str.

Professor Helma Lutz

Opis

"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 readers understanding of the new care-economy; it is also sets standards for feminist global methodology.

Spis treści

1: The New Division of Domestic Labour 2: The Household as a Global Market for Women's Labour 3: Domestic Work and Lifestyles: Methods and First Results 4: Domestic Work - A Perfectly Normal Job? 5: Exploitation or Alliance of Trust? Relationship Work in the Household 6: Transnational Motherhood 7: Being Illegal 8: Migrant Women in the Globalization Trap?