immigrant women in the paid domestic work in Europe from the English G. Deckert
In the feminist debate the housework for a long time as the great> DC-maker \u0026lt;was considered. As a burden, almost indiscriminately to all women would be imposed by the patriarchal relations. This unique study on domestic workers in Europe highlights the other hand, the aspects of origin and class position within the domestic relations of oppression.
Bridget Anderson is the question of who shall make the reproduction work and when, how and where it should be provided, according to parteiischem view from below, from the perspective of migrant women, because this work not only reproduces life, but at the same time Status, hierarchy and social Relations. The study is based on its research, the author and claims the racial context of paid domestic work in the north in the view. A phenomenon that challenges the feminist theory in a fundamental way.
Bridget Anderson provides a comprehensive insight into the life and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Great Britain and Germany. Based on interviews, she works out in the conflicting interests of employers and domestic workers, and examines the exercise of power maternalistische female employer.
As an employee of Kalayaan, a self-organization of undocumented domestic workers she describes the long struggle in the UK.
The book makes clear that the regulation, legalization and professionalization of paid domestic work will not change the fact that it is existentially self-determined, and acting under submission scale work. The power of employers may be limited by laws, but they will not disappear. Changes are not critical to the regulation, the working conditions, but the antagonistic self-organization of domestic workers.
book, 272 pages
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