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Author Montgomery, Mary, 1986- author.

Title Hired daughters : domestic workers among ordinary Moroccans / Mary Montgomery
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Dramatis Personae; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Part I: The Social Relations of Domestic Service; 1. A City Quarter and the "Popular" Ideal; 2. Mothers and Daughters; 3. A Civilizing Mission: Charity, Reward, and Gratitude; 4. Serving Neighbors, Serving Strangers: Markets and Marketplaces; Part II: Domestic Workers in the Wider World; 5. Domestic Workers in the City; 6. Domestic Workers at Home; 7. Domestic Workers and the Law; Conclusion; References Cited; Index; About the Author
Summary Mary Montgomery examines why Moroccans so often talk about their domestic workers as daughters, what this means for workers and employers, and how this is changing in contemporary Morocco
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2019)
Subject Household employees -- Morocco -- Social conditions
Labor supply -- Morocco
Kinship -- Morocco
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic history
Household employees -- Social conditions
Kinship
Labor supply
Social conditions
SUBJECT Morocco -- Social conditions
Morocco -- Economic conditions
Subject Morocco
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253041036
0253041031
9780253041043
025304104X