In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women from poorer
countries have braved treacherous journeys to richer countries to
work as poorly paid domestic workers. In From servants to workers,
Shireen Ally asks whether the low wages and poor working conditions
so characteristic of migrant domestic work can truly be resolved by
means of the extension of citizenship rights. Following South
Africa's 'miraculous' transition to democracy, more than a million
poor black women who had endured a despotic organization of paid
domestic work under apartheid became the beneficiaries of one of
the world's most impressive and extensive efforts to formalize and
modernise paid domestic work through state regulation. Ally
explores the political implications of paid domestic work as an
intimate form of labour. From Servants to workers integrates
sociological insights with the often-heartbreaking life histories
of female domestic workers in South Africa and provides rich detail
of the streets, homes, and churches of Johannesburg where these
women work, live, and socialise.
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