The new maids : transnational women and the care economy / Helma Lutz ; translated by Deborah Shannon.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.Description: viii, 241 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781848132870 (cased)
  • 1848132875 (cased)
  • 9781848132887 (pbk.)
  • 1848132883 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Vom Weltmarkt in den Privathaushalt. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 6072 .L8813 2011
Contents:
New division of domestic labour -- Household as a global market for women's labour -- Domestic work and lifestyles : methods and first results -- Domestic work, a perfectly normal job? -- Exploitation or alliance of trust? Relationship work in the household -- Transnational motherhood -- Being illegal : migrant women in the globalization trap?
Summary: Addresses the lifestyles of immigrant women working as domestic workers as maids in modern Western households.
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Originally published in German as: Vom Weltmarkt in den Privathaushalt : die neuen Dienstm�adchen im Zeitalter der Globalisierung. 2nd ed. Opladen ; Farmington Hills, Mich. : B. Budrich, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.

New division of domestic labour -- Household as a global market for women's labour -- Domestic work and lifestyles : methods and first results -- Domestic work, a perfectly normal job? -- Exploitation or alliance of trust? Relationship work in the household -- Transnational motherhood -- Being illegal : migrant women in the globalization trap?

Addresses the lifestyles of immigrant women working as domestic workers as maids in modern Western households.

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