| Description |
xxiv,299 pages,3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Arranging and Rearranging the Interior Frontiers of Society -- 3. "Boys, Amahs, and Girls": Domestic Workers of the Past and Present -- 4. The Malaysian-Philippine-Indonesian Maid Trade -- 5. Infrapolitics of Domestic Service: Strategies of, and Resistances to, Control -- 6. Modernity Via Consumption: Domestic Service and the Making of the Modern Malaysian Middle Classes -- 7. Conclusion |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p265-287. - Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Indonesian -- Malaysia.
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Foreign workers, Filipino -- Malaysia.
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Master and servant -- Malaysia.
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Women household employees -- Malaysia.
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Women -- Employment -- Malaysia.
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Women -- Philippines -- Employment -- Malaysia.
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Women, Indonesian -- Employment -- Malaysia
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| LC no. |
97043048 |
| ISBN |
0231109865 (cloth) |
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0231109873 (paper) |
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