Singha Work, Labour and Cleaning

The Social Contexts of Outsourcing Housework
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0148-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

Reihe: Gender and Sociology

The outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but there has been little research into White British women who work as independent providers of cleaning services.

Work, Labour and Cleaning is a cross-cultural analysis based on new research into two particular social contexts, one in the UK and one in India. It argues that outsourced domestic cleaning can be undertaken either as work (using mental and manual skills) or as labour (usually defined as unskilled, 'natural' women’s work) depending on the social context and working conditions in which it occurs. The book challenges feminist dogma and popular myths about housework.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singha, Lotika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Conceptualising Paid Domestic Work

Behind the Words: Introducing the Research Project and Respondents

Nuances in the Politics of Demand for Outsourced Housecleaning

The Imperfect Contours of Outsourced Domestic Cleaning as Dirty Work

Domestic Cleaning: Work or Labour

Meanings of Domestic Cleaning as Work and Labour

The Occupational Relations of Domestic Cleaning as Work and Labour

Concluding the Book, Continuing the Journey

Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Singha, Lotika
Lotika Singha received her doctorate in women’s studies from the University of York. Her research interests centre on social inequalities in everyday life and cross-cultural theories across various population groups.