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The New Maids

By - Lutz, Helma
Floor - Floor 1
Published - Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, ©2011
ISBN 10 - 1848132883
ISBN 13 - 9781848132887
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Sex role and globalization
Shelf No - 17
Call Number - 331.4816 LUT
Physical Description - 331.4816
Notes - Includes Index
Book Information
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.

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