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Title:Disposable Nannies: Domestic Servants in the Political Economy of South Africa
Author:Cock, JacklynISNI
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.
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