Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Introduction; A methodological discussion; Doing fieldwork at home; The socio-economic context of change; To market, to market: rural urban migration and becoming modern; Overqualified and underpaid: wage work in the personal services sector; Sex and salaries: single women migrants in the city; Marriage, money and men: working mothers and their households; The hand that rocks the cradle leaves wage work: Bidayuh housewives; Holding their own: four women and their stories; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Based on research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, this book explores the changes in women's lifestyles from traditional rural lifestyles to modern urban ones
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-171) and index
