Home Economics - Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa (Hardcover)

Domestic service has long been one of the largest forms of urban employment across southern Africa. Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of this essential sector in the decades following independence and the end of apartheid. Focusing on Lusaka and drawing wider comparisons, the book traces how Black workers and employers adapted existing models of domestic service as part of broader responses to changing gendered employment patterns, economic decline, and endemic poverty. It reveals how kin-based domestic service gradually displaced wage labour and how women and girl workers came to dominate kin-based and waged domestic service, with profound consequences for labour regulation and worker organising. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book provides essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africa's post-colonial and post-apartheid history. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8, Decent work and economic growth -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Gender in History
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Sacha Hepburn (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-6202-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-5261-6202-4
Barcode:	9781526162021

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