Between Women Domestics and Their Employers

Name: Between Women Domestics and Their Employers
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ISBN: 9780877224914

ISBN-10: 0877224919

ISBN-13: 9780877224914

Edition: 1987

Authors: Judith Rollins

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Between Womenis the result of forty in-depth interviews, interviews enhanced by the author's own experience as a domestic worker for ten employers in the greater Boston area. The reader is quickly drawn into the world of domestic workers as the author allows the women to speak for themselves whenever possible. Clearly relevant to labor studies, women's studies and black studies, at its essence this book is a study of the social psychology of relationships of domination. Yet, while focusing on these relationships, the author never loses sight of the larger social structure and how it affects and is affected by employer-domestic dyads. The opening chapter provides an overview of domestic…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 2/10/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English