Author: Cock, Jacklyn.
Title: Maids and Madams. A Study in the Politics of Exploitation
Description: Ravan 1984. Stiff card wraps. 410pp 8vo. Owners signature ffep. Inside only of front wrap rippled, a manufacturing fault not visible externally. overall G-VG, sound and clean. ISBN: 0869751213 In South Africa more black women work in domestic service than in almost any other occupational category. Interviewed by a black Xhosa-speaking woman, herself a domestic worker, this explores what lies beneath the sullen or calm exterior seen by their employers. Research was conducted mainly in the Eastern Cape Province.

Keywords: social anthropology sociology domestic work maids south southern africa african eastern cape xhosa


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