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Hired Daughters - Domestic Workers among Ordinary Moroccans (Hardcover)
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Hired Daughters - Domestic Workers among Ordinary Moroccans (Hardcover)
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Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in
which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were
placed in their homes until marriage. In this tradition of
"bringing up," the girls are considered "daughters of the house,"
and part of their role in the family is to help with the housework.
Gradually, this tradition is transforming into one in which workers
unfamiliar to their host families are paid a wage and may not stay
long, but where the Islamic ethics of charity, religious reward,
and gratitude still inform expectations on both sides. Mary
Montgomery examines why Moroccans so often talk about their
domestic workers as daughters, what this means for workers and
employers, and how this is changing in contemporary Morocco.
Prioritizing the experiences and perspectives of these women,
Montgomery charts the tension that has developed between socially
embedded, loyal domestic workers who operate within narratives of
kinship and obligation and women who seek greater
individualization, privacy, and self-empowerment. Hired Daughters
offers a nuanced understanding of a world that bridges public and
private, morality and money, family and outsiders. In doing so, it
provides an intimate consideration of contemporary Moroccan
households as economic enterprises and sites of navigation between
the traditional and the global.
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