Doing the Dirty Work?

This study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on research, it maps the employment patterns of migrant women in domestic work, and looks at the feminization of the labour market.

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"'Doing the Dirty Work?" makes visible the invisible lives and work of migrant domestic workers throughout the world. Challenging and demanding, the book is rooted in Bridget Anderson's direct and peronal involvement in campaigning with migrant domestic workers against oppression and for justice.' - Diana Holland, T & G National Organiser, Women, Race and Equalities, Transport and General Workers Union <br>"'Doing the Dirty Work? "should be essential reading for all who care about human dignity, the hope of equality and the pursuit of happiness. Humane and horrifying, thoughtful and searching, it gives as complete a picture as we can hope for of the many evils and few blessings inherent in domestic labour worldwide today.' - Ruth Rendell <br> '...should be read by anyone concerned with issues of poverty and oppression...' -" Social Development Issues" <br> 'A challenging, eloquent, and timely work that deserves to be read' - "Contemporary Sociology"<br>

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Introduction - political fictions and real oppressions; Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde - defining domestic work; a foot in the door - the social organization of paid domestic work in Europe; invisible women I - migrant domestic workers in Southern Europe; invisible women II - migrant domestic workers in Northern Europe; selling the self - commodification, migration and domestic work; the legacy of slavery - the American South and contemporary domestic workers; just like one of the family - status and contract; your passport is your life - domestic workers and the state.

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