ABSTRACT
This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way: domestic service and colonization. Colonization offers a rich and exciting new paradigm for analyzing the phenomenon of domestic labor by non-family workers, paid and otherwise. Colonization is used here in its broadest sense, to refer to the expropriation and exploitation of land and resources by one group over another, and encompassing imperial/extraction and settler modes of colonization, internal colonization, and present-day neo-colonialism. Contributors from diverse fields and disciplines share new and stimulating insights on the various connections between domestic employment and the processes of colonization, both past and present, in a range of original essays dealing with Indonesian, Canadian Aboriginal, Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Islander, African, Jamaican, Indian, Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Sri Lankan, and 'white' domestic servants.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
An Historical Perspective
part I|107 pages
Anxieties and Intimacies
chapter 2|18 pages
Domesti-City
chapter 4|18 pages
‘Ah Look Afta De Child Like Is Mine' 1
chapter 5|16 pages
‘Always a Good Demand'
chapter 6|18 pages
Maids' Talk
chapter 7|15 pages
Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
part II|85 pages
Domination and Resistance
chapter 8|19 pages
‘Strictly Legal Means'
chapter 9|10 pages
Imperial Legacies and Neoliberal Realities
chapter 11|19 pages
‘I Would Like the Girls at Home'
chapter 12|22 pages
White Mistresses and Chinese ‘Houseboys'
part III|115 pages
Legacies and Dreams