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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. |