Ebook: At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective

At Work in Homes presents a global perspective on household work and those workers who are recruited to perform a variety of re-productive tasks in households other than their own. The case studies | in this volume, from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and North America, include several little-studied locales of household work. In this intro-duction we will argue that the structuring of work in homes not only provides reproductive labor to employing households, but simultaneously reinforces relations of power and inequality within each local society where it is found. Together these essays force us to reexamine household work, to expose its distinctive transcultural features, and to question received generalizations.