The New Maids : Transnational Women and the Care Economy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The New Maids : Transnational Women and the Care Economy Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 1848132883
  • 9781848132887
  • Helma Lutz
  • 11 August 2011
  • Zed Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
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