The Servant Problem: Domestic Employment in a Global Economy - Softcover

Cox, Rosie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850436207 ISBN 13: 9781850436201

Verlag: I.B. Tauris, 2006

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There are now more servants in Britain than in Victorian times. This explosion in paid domestic employment is part of a global trend. Women from countries such as the Philippines take on domestic jobs in order to support families at home, whilst students from Eastern Europe, the EU and Brazil work as au pairs in order to study English and improve their employment prospects. Rosie Cox's timely new work examines the reality of paid domestic labour in Britain today and explores the global trends that sustain this growth of domestic employment. She shows how the economy depends on women working outside the home, how it is the employment of domestic workers that helps make this possible and examines the experiences of both employers and employees who have joined this new global labour market.

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Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching au pairs and other forms of paid domestic labour in the UK for nearly 20 years. She is the author of The Servant Problem: Domestic Employment in a Global Economy (2006), coeditor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (2007), co-author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives (2008), Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life (2011) and editor of Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context (2015).

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• Verlag: I.B. Tauris
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1850436207
• ISBN 13: 9781850436201
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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