AES Monograph Series, Number 3

At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective

Roger Sanjek and Shellee Cohen, Editors

 

Contents

  • Introduction
  • At Work in Homes I: Orientations
    Shellee Cohen and Roger Sanjek
  • Indigenous African and Asian Forms of Household Work
  • Service and Status: Slaves and Concubines in Kano, Nigeria
    Beverly B. Mack
  • Maid Servants and Market Women's Apprentices in Adabraka
    Roger Sanjek
  • Household Workers in Nyishang, Nepal
    M. T. Cooke
  • Euroamerican Forms of Household Work
  • Ideology and Servitude
    Judith Rollins
  • "Housekeeping" for the Green Card: West Indian Household
  • Workers, the State, and Stratified Reproduction in New York
    Shellee Cohen
  • Neocolonial Forms of Household Work
  • Part of the Household Inventory: Men Servants in Zambia
    Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • Female Household Workers in Industrializing Malaysia
    M. Jocelyn Armstrong
  • Household Workers in Urban Martinque
    Michel S. Laguerre
  • Conclusion
  • At Work in Homes II: Directions
    Shellee Cohen and Roger Sanjek
  • Household Workers in World Perspective
    Roger Sanjek and Shellee Cohen

At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective
ISBN 0-913167-39-8
1990
iv + 204 pages
6 x 9
$7.50 (AAA Members) / $10 (All others)