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This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that have
not been addressed together previously in any sustained way:
domestic service and colonization. Colonization offers a rich and
exciting new paradigm for analyzing the phenomenon of domestic
labor by non-family workers, paid and otherwise. Colonization is
used here in its broadest sense, to refer to the expropriation and
exploitation of land and resources by one group over another, and
encompassing imperial/extraction and settler modes of colonization,
internal colonization, and present-day neo-colonialism.
Contributors from diverse fields and disciplines share new and
stimulating insights on the various connections between domestic
employment and the processes of colonization, both past and
present, in a range of original essays dealing with Indonesian,
Canadian Aboriginal, Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Islander,
African, Jamaican, Indian, Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Sri Lankan, and
'white' domestic servants.
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the
Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study
shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble'
jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely
overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of
empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore,
Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina,
the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves
into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between
European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the
lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home,
considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels,
and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling
across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of
service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate
trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of
servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an
important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour
history and the Asia Pacific region.
This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that
have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way:
domestic service and colonization. Colonization offers a rich and
exciting new paradigm for analyzing the phenomenon of domestic
labor by non-family workers, paid and otherwise. Colonization is
used here in its broadest sense, to refer to the expropriation and
exploitation of land and resources by one group over another, and
encompassing imperial/extraction and settler modes of colonization,
internal colonization, and present-day neo-colonialism.
Contributors from diverse fields and disciplines share new and
stimulating insights on the various connections between domestic
employment and the processes of colonization, both past and
present, in a range of original essays dealing with Indonesian,
Canadian Aboriginal, Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Islander,
African, Jamaican, Indian, Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Sri Lankan, and
white domestic servants."
Examining the role of Asian and indigenous male servants across the
Asia Pacific from the late-19th century to the 1930s, this study
shows how their ubiquitous presence in these purportedly 'humble'
jobs gave them a degree of cultural influence that has been largely
overlooked in the literature on labour mobility in the age of
empire. With case studies from British Hong Kong, Singapore,
Northern Australia, Fiji and British Columbia, French Indochina,
the American Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the book delves
into the intimate and often conflicted relationships between
European and American colonists and their servants. It explores the
lives of 'houseboys', cooks and gardeners in the colonial home,
considers the bell-boys and waiters in the grand colonial hotels,
and follows the stewards and cabin-boys on steamships travelling
across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This broad conception of
service allows Colonialism and Male Domestic Service to illuminate
trans-colonial or cross-border influences through the mobility of
servants and their employers. This path-breaking study is an
important book for students and scholars of colonialism, labour
history and the Asia Pacific region.
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