Paula Mählck

Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania

Gender, Learning and Unlearning

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Produktbeschreibung

"Focusing on a highly vulnerable group - Tanzanian women domestic workers in private households - this book investigates the changes and continuities between contemporary employment conditions and conditions that were practiced during the system of Indenture in East Africa, from 1820s - 1940s, through narratives from women employers, domestic workers and historical documents"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350277038
• ISBN-10: 1350277037
• Artikelnr.: 69822108

Autorenporträt

Paula Mählck is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Migration and Ethnicity at Linköping University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Tales of
the Field Chapter Three: Pedagogies of Unlearning Chapter Four:
Historicising Domestic Work Relations in Expatriate Households Chapter
Five: Domestic Workers' Learning, Coping with and Unlearning of Cheapening
in the Everyday Chapter Six: Can the Oppressor be Oppressed? References
Bibliography Index