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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 -- .
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