Towards a global history of domestic and caregiving workers [electronic resource] / edited by Dirk Hoerder, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger.

"Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, 'adopted' workers. Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, tho...

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