ABSTRACT
The analysis is concerned principally with the process and with the lives of those peoples who formally identified their own contemporary territories as colonies. Colonization is understood as both metaphor and mechanism. Although the metaphorical usage can reveal much about the mechanism. The analysis in this chapter recognizes four colonial types they are: settler colonies, settlement colonies, mandates and protectorates and occupied colonies. It also focuses on contemporary patterns and depends heavily on data collected by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the definition used is that employed by this agency. It is a long stretch to relate the recent growth in domestic service in China or the Middle East to a history of colonization, in strong contrast with the experience of Latin America. Although colonization has indeed created long lasting, persistent forms of domestic service, formal colonization is by no means essential to the existence of substantial populations of domestic workers in the contemporary world.
