The Servant Problem
Domestic Employment in a Global Economy
1st Edition
Published on 27. January 2006
176 pages
978-0-85771-675-0 (ISBN)
Description
There are now more servants in Britain than in Victorian times. This explosion in paid domestic employment is part of a global trend. Women from countries such as the Philippines take on domestic jobs in order to support families at home, whilst students from Eastern Europe, the EU and Brazil work as au pairs in order to study English and improve their employment prospects. Rosie Cox's timely new work examines the reality of paid domestic labour in Britain today and explores the global trends that sustain this growth of domestic employment. She shows how the economy depends on women working outside the home, how it is the employment of domestic workers that helps make this possible and examines the experiences of both employers and employees who have joined this new global labour market.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-675-0 (9780857716750)
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Person
Rosie Cox is Lecturer in London Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has a long-standing interest in domestic employment, in particular the growth of domestic employment in London and how this relates to its place as a world city.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowlegements
- Preface: why domestic workers?
- Filippa
- 1. What is the servant problem?
- 2. Caring in the new world order
- 3. 'Carefree' Britain
- 4. Minding the gaps: the crisis in childcare
- 5. The new 'upstairs, downstairs'
- 6. A life between slavery and luxury: living as a domestic worker
- 7. Conclusion: solving the servant problem
- Notes
- References
- Index
