Home economics[electronic resource] :domestic service and gender in urban southern Africa
- 作者: Hepburn, Sacha,
- 出版: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2022.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource.
- 叢書名: Gender in history
- 標題: Social aspects , Household employees Social aspects -- Africa, Southern. , Household employees
- ISBN: 1526162032 , 9781526162038
- ISBN: 9781526162021 , 1526162024
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- 摘要: Home economics provides the first in-depth study of domestic service in black households in southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Its innovative theoretical approach brings waged and kin-based domestic labour and child and adult workers into a single frame of analysis for the first time, and foregrounds female labour. Focusing on Lusaka and drawing wider comparisons, the book traces how black employers and workers reworked domestic service practices as part of broader responses to changing gendered employment patterns, economic decline and endemic poverty. In this context, kin-based domestic service gradually displaced wage labour and women and girl workers came to dominate kin-based and waged domestic service, with profound consequences for labour regulation and worker organising. This rich, timely study challenges the narrow focus of existing scholarship and policymaking and breaks new ground in the history and theorisation of work in southern Africa.
- 電子資源: https://dbs.tnua.edu.tw/login?url=https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/MUPB0002206.html
- 系統號: 005330504
- 資料類型: 電子書
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Domestic service has long been one of the largest forms of urban employment across southern Africa. Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of this essential sector in the decades following independence and the end of apartheid. Focusing on Lusaka and drawing wider comparisons, the book traces how Black workers and employers adapted existing models of domestic service as part of broader responses to changing gendered employment patterns, economic decline, and endemic poverty. It reveals how kin-based domestic service gradually displaced wage labour and how women and girl workers came to dominate kin-based and waged domestic service, with profound consequences for labour regulation and worker organising. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book provides essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africa’s post-colonial and post-apartheid history.
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