Cheng Sim Hew

Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, this book explores the changes in women's lifestyles from traditional rural lifestyles to modern urban ones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 373g
• ISBN-13: 9781138862876
• ISBN-10: 1138862878
• Artikelnr.: 42787244

Autorenporträt

HEW Cheng Sim teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universtiy of Malaysia, Sarawak.

Inhaltsangabe

List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2.
A Methodological DiscussionChapter 3. Doing Fieldwork at HomeChapter 4. The
Socio-Economic Context of ChangeChapter 5. To Market, To Market:
Rural-Urban Migration and Becoming ModernChapter 6. Overqualified and
Underpaid: Wage Work in the Personal Services SectorChapter 7. Sex and
Salaries: Single Women Migrants in the CityChapter 8. Marriage, Money and
Men: Working Mothers and their HouseholdsChapter 9. The Hand that Rocks the
Cradle Leaves Wage Work: Bidayuh HousewivesChapter 10. Holding their Own:
Four Women and their StoriesChapter 11. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex