Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers

Dirk Hoerder is professor emeritus of global history. He has taught in Germany, France, Canada and the United States. His main interests are global migration and human agency in translocal, transregional and transstate settings using a transcultural approach.Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk is associate professor in labor and economic history at Wageningen University. Her publications include articles in the Economic History Review and Feminist Economics. She has co-edited volumes on the global history of textile workers and child labor.Silke Neunsinger is associate professor in economic history and director of research at the Labour Movement Archives and Library in Stockholm. Her research has been concerned with feminist labor history and the history of social movements. She is currently working on the global history of equal pay.

• Acknowledgements ... ixIllustrations and Figures ... xList of Contributors ... xi1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25Raffaella Sarti3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61Dirk HoerderPART 1Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113Dirk Hoerder5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120Majda Hrženjak6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz 8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182Adéla Souralová9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202Lokesh10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from1970 to 2010 ... 222Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De GuzmanPART 2Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 ... 254Shireen Ally13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271Robyn Allyce Pariser14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 ... 296Andrew Urban15 “The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material”: Native American Domestic Workers’ Wages under the Outing System in the UnitedStates, 1880s–1930s ... 323Victoria K. Haskins16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346Bela Kashyap17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366Sabrina MarchettiPART 3From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for ChangingConditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389Silke Neunsinger19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400R. David Goodman20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428Magaly Rodríguez García21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451Dimitris Kalantzopoulos22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465Marina de Regt23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) ... 484Jessica Richter24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924–1952” ... 511Elizabeth Quay Hutchison25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. FishIndex ... 553