Female work ; International migration ; Slavery ; Thailand ; Violence ; Woman
conditions and often-abusive environment in which domesticworkers from Burma have been employed. They are unable to defend their most basic rights as citizens in Burma, as migrant and as domesticworkers. Collective work divided in ten chapters : 1
- Historical overview, 2- Research methodology, 3- Life in Burma, 4- The migration journey, 5- Working conditions, 6- Legal status, 7- Health issues, 8- Addiction and domestic violence, 9- Future aspirations, 10- Recommendations. - (GL)
Undocumented migration flows involve millions throughout Asia with an increasing number of women and girls moving into unregulated works without rights. The study focuses on two sites in Thailand, Chiang Mai and Mae Sot, and highlights the extreme
Domesticating anchored work : negotiating flexibility when bringing ICT based work home in rural communities
Communauté rurale ; Différence entre sexes ; Domestication ; Famille ; Flexibilité ; Mode de vie ; Norvège ; Royaume-Uni ; Scotland ; Travail ; Vie quotidienne
Daily life ; Domestication ; Family ; Flexibility ; Gender difference ; Labour ; Norway ; Rural community ; Scotland ; United Kingdom ; Way of life
L’A. étudie la manière dont le travail se négocie et s’intègre au sein d’activités non rémunérées dans la vie quotidienne du ménage et de la collectivité locale. S’appuyant sur le concept de domestication, l’A. montre comment les normes
The home and the world : domestic service and international networks of caring labor
California ; House work ; Immigration ; Labour ; Labour market ; Network ; San Diego ; Service ; Social reproduction ; United States of America ; Woman
This article draws on interviews with 32 immigrant domesticworkers and 29 employers of domesticworkers in San Diego to examine the organisation of caring labor in the two sets of households. Neither group relies primarily on government support
Gendered work : female labour in pipfruit production in New Zealand and Chile
Chile ; Comparative study ; Employment ; Female work ; Fruit ; Gardening ; Gender difference ; Labour ; New Zealand ; Seasonal work ; Woman
As added workers seeking to supplement household incomes by seasonal employment, these female workers are significant contributors to what are often declining household incomes. While there are differences in the respective labour markets of the two
countries, the role of women in balancing employment and domestic responsabilities is characteristic of both situations.
Manufacturers and employment (number of workers and manufacturers total and by branch), investment and capital intensity, production sales on the domestic market, export-import.
Bringing democracy back home : community localism and the domestication of political space
on the work of Judith Butler, the paper theorises these practices as the incursion into the public realm of regulatory norms related to domestic and private spaces, rendering political space familiar and malleable, and suggesting that power and decision making
Domesticating neo-liberalism : spaces of economic practice and social reproduction in post-socialist cities
Bratislava ; Cracow ; Eastern Europe ; Economic restructuring ; Europe ; Household behaviour ; Labour market ; Neighbourhood ; Neo liberalism ; Poland ; Slovak Republic ; Social reproduction ; Societal relations ; Urban society ; Working class
Based on research in working-class neighbourhoods in Krakow (Poland) and Bratislava (Slovakia), this book explores how households attempt to mitigate and tolerate the social costs of neoliberal reform to create circumstances for their social
on the areas of fishing, agriculture, domesticwork, sex work and the trafficking of children, weaving into the wider history of Thailand’s changing economy and labor situation. It also details how the Thai government has addressed the issue, reflects
on Sauer's most controversial work, with comments on animal domestication in the Neotropics and West Africa. He also proposes to discuss and illustrate a major source of geographical information, language, which Sauer never used systematically.
The A. first went to Berkeley as a post-doctoral research fellow in 1955. He reflects on the ethos of the Berkeley School, the vision of its principal architect, and the influence of both on his own work over 40 years. He proposes to expand
of thai multinationals overseas, and the changing interplay between business capital and political power. This work discusses the political consequences and the policy implications of these major changes, and questions whether domestic capital in countries
in. The engine of growth is now an export economy dominated by multinational while domestic capital is confined to service and rentier activities. This book, product of a four years project by a dozen researchers, provides a panorama of jolting change. Among
Masculine discourses and disonances : strutting lads, protest masculinity, and domestic respectability
Behaviour ; Discourse ; Employment ; England ; Gender ; Perception ; Schooling ; Sheffield ; Socio-economic system ; United Kingdom ; Urban sociology ; Working class ; Young people
Job search, social networks, and local labor-market dynamics : the case of paid household work in San Diego, California
California ; Domestic service ; Economic sector ; Foreign worker ; Informal sector ; Labour ; Labour market ; San Diego ; Social network ; United States of America ; Urban immigration
Cultural studies ; Domesticworker ; Employment ; Foreign worker ; Germany ; Labour market ; Productivity ; Professional qualification ; Wage
the more diverse is the group of high-skilled foreigners. For low-skilled foreigners benefits from diversity are also found, but only conditional on the overall size of this group. These results suggest that cultural diversity benefits native workers