ABSTRACT
The conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is the intention of the collective research to initiate and develop a meaningful conversation between scholars from a whole range of backgrounds, on the connections between colonization and domestic service, or domestic work, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The theme of representation underpins all the thematic essays to varying degrees, as well as the two 'global' perspectives offered by B. W. Higman and Jennifer N. Fish. Shireen Ally's meditation on the anxieties produced by conflicting representations of domestic workers in postcolonial South Africa, Caribbean domestic workers asserting their mothering skill were given by Michele Johnson and Alana Glaser, Michael Aird's photo-essay on Aboriginal Australian domestic workers' photographs, and Pamela Nilan, Lu Puh Artini, and Steven Threadgold's study of Balinese cruise workers, to single out just a few. All of these chapters allows people to consider the condition of colonized domestic workers.
