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Title: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild ISBN: 0-8050-6995-X Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Overview of Female Migrant Workers
Comment: ...Nevertheless, this book gives the reader valuable insight into the impact and opinions of women migrant workers in the service trades. All of the anthologized authors write in an accessible style free of academic jargon. I was particularly interested in the articles which did not have an American viewpoint and which presented the views of the women (and occasionally men) involved. For example, in various essays we get to meet Dominican women in the sex trade hoping to form relationships with European men; a college-educated Vietnamese women entering into an arranged marriage with an immigrant man holding an unskilled job in the U.S.; Filipina household workers laughing about the rules proposed by prospective Hong Kong employers; and a Sri Lankan man taking over the traditional woman's role to assist migrant relatives working in Saudi Arabia.
There are some gaps here, such as the lack of first-person narratives and the views of Eastern European women working in Western Europe, but no anthology can be all-inclusive. This book is a good start and will be an intersting learning experience for most readers.
Rating: 2
Summary: nannies and sex workers in same title is offensive
Comment: As the mother of five that relied on childcare during the many years of single parenting I think we tend to concentrate too much on the elite and their need for childcare. The notion that this childcare contributes to the foreign exchange is a little off base when in reality it contributes to an underground economy because the salaries are mostly off the books and taxes are not paid in any form. Safety issues also arise when you consider that most of the illegeal aliens caring for our children have never had childhood immunizations, and refuse the TB test. This may sound unimportant and nit picking but the reality is diseases we thought were erradicated like whooping cough can be traced to the unimmunized worker. Leaving your children behind to take care of mine is something we as a nation should give more thought about.
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Title: The Commercialization of Intimate Life : Notes from Home and Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild ISBN: 0520214889 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Rhacel Salazar Parreenas ISBN: 0804739226 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang, Mimi Abramovitz ISBN: 0896086178 Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if People Mattered by Lourdes Beneria ISBN: 0415927072 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ISBN: 0520226437 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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