Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour

Name: Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour
ISBN: 9781856497619

Bridget Anderson analyzes how migrant domestic labor is organized by employers, states, and border regimes, exposing the race, class, gender, and citizenship politics behind household work.

Migration Domestic Labor Labor Rights Class and Gender Race and Gender Citizenship

Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour

📝 Book Review & Summary

Doing the Dirty Work? asks what employers are really buying when they hire migrant domestic workers. Anderson argues that domestic workers are often required to sell not only tasks, but a social role: deferential, always available, intimate enough to serve yet never equal to family.

For FemRes, the book sharpens the power analysis of care and labor. It moves housework away from private morality and into immigration status, border control, racialized service relations, and class domination.

Publication Info

Author: Bridget Anderson

Published: January 1, 2000

ISBN: 9781856497619

Language: English

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