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Title:Class, Race and Gender: Domestic Workers in South Africa
Authors:Gaitskell, Deborah
Kimble, Judy
Unterhalter, Elaine
Year:1983
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:10
Issue:27-28
Pages:86-108
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:women's employment
domestic workers
Women's Issues
Labor and Employment
Ethnic and Race Relations
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248308703548
Abstract:This article takes a preliminary look at domestic service from various angles - conceptual, historical and contemporary. A new slant is provided en the existing theoretical discussion of domestic labour, for domestic workers are here clearly distinguished from housewives. The peculiar way in which race, class and gender have all shaped the character of domestic service in South Africa is stressed at the outset, and the way various races and both sexes moved into and sometimes out of domestic service is illustrated. The authors conclude that the current trend away from the long-established pattern of live-in servants may well aid political mobilisation of formerly isolated domestic workers. Bibliogr., ill., tab.
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