This book examines the implications of China's economic reforms
for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the
factors that give rise to paid domestic work in a socialist
economy, and goes on to look at the need for social protection of
domestic workers within cities in contemporary China.
Using a socialist feminist approach, the book investigates how
China's economic restructuring has deliberately crafted a domestic
service sector from the top-down. Through the analysis of the
situation of paid domestic labour, it demonstrates how the changes
in socialist ideology under a market economy have justified the
state's support for paid domestic labour; the large role of the
state in these ideological changes; and how domestic labour is
related to economic changes and the market economy itself. The book
argues that state's economic reforms have changed gender and class
relations in Chinese society.
Based on interviews with domestic workers, their employers,
their social advocates, and government officials, this book
examines the economic and social security of domestic workers and
provides information about their precarious working conditions that
could be improved through public policy. It also explores women's
agency and activism, and the current role of NGOs and trade unions
in labour protection.
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