Gender in History #: Home Economics

Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa

Gender in History #: Home Economics
Sacha Hepburn
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h216 x 138mm - 256pg
5 Jul 2022 UK
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9781526162021
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Home economics provides the first in-depth study of domestic service in black households in southern Africa' s post-colonial cities. Its innovative theoretical approach brings waged and kin-based domestic labour and child and adult workers into a single frame of analysis for the first time, and foregrounds female labour. Focusing on Lusaka and drawing wider comparisons, the book traces how black employers and workers reworked domestic service practices as part of broader responses to changing gendered employment patterns, economic decline and endemic poverty. In this context, kin-based domestic service gradually displaced wage labour and women and girl workers came to dominate kin-based and waged domestic service, with profound consequences for labour regulation and worker organising. This rich, timely study challenges the narrow focus of existing scholarship and policymaking and breaks new ground in the history and theorisation of work in southern Africa.

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Sacha Hepburn is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526162021
Published: 5 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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