Global Woman by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
A wide-ranging collection of essays and case studies that examines how globalization has transferred domestic and care labor onto migrant women from poorer countries, creating international care chains in which middle- and upper-class households in wealthier nations rely on nannies, maids, and sex workers from the Global South. The contributors document the economic, legal and emotional consequences for these workers and their families — including precarious legal status, exploitative work conditions, remittance dependence, and strained family ties — and analyze how gendered labor hierarchies and immigration policies produce and sustain global inequalities while arguing for greater recognition and protection of care and domestic workers.
- Published
- 2002
- Nationality
- American
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- English
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