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Title: | Disposable Nannies: Domestic Servants in the Political Economy of South Africa |
Author: | Cock, Jacklyn |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 21 |
Period: | May-September |
Pages: | 63-83 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | domestic workers Women's Issues Labor and Employment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248108703467 |
Abstract: | The institution of black domestic labour socialises whites into the dominant ideological order of race and exposes servants to its most humiliating practices. Black servants are coerced into dependency upon their employers but white women are also dependents within the patriarchal structures of capital. In this article the author explores the ideas generated by the domestic labour debate to understand the role of domestic labour in South Africa in the reproduction of labour power and examines some of the contradictory trends in the conditions of reproduction within the capitalist economy. Notes. |