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Distant Companions : Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900–1985 /

Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful f...

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Hovedforfatter: Hansen, Karen Tranberg
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Rôle selon le sexe > Zambie.
Employees de maison > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Division sexuelle du travail > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Employeur et employe > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Employes de maison > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Huishoudelijke arbeid.
Werkgevers.
Employes.
Dienstbote
Diener
Social conditions
Sexual division of labor.
Master and servant.
Household employees.
Colonial influence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Employeur et employe (Droit) > Zambie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Master and servant > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Sexual division of labor > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Household employees > Zambia > History > 20th century.
Zambie > Influence coloniale.
Zambie > Conditions sociales.
Sambia
Zambia.
Zambia > Colonial influence.
Zambia > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction: the problem and its context
  • Part I.A fixture of colonial society
  • The creation of a gender role: the male domestic servant
  • Women for hire? Sex and gender in domestic service
  • Troubled lives: servants and their employers in the preindependence era
  • Part II. Encountering domestic service
  • Part III. Colonial legacies and postcolonial changes
  • Persistence and change
  • A transformed occupation
  • Lives beyond the workplace
  • Servants everywhere: conclusions
  • Appendix 1. Servants' wages
  • Appendix 2. Servants' budgets.

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