Cultures of servitude: modernity, domesticity, and class in India, with a new preface
Ray, Raka
Cultures of servitude: modernity, domesticity, and class in India, with a new preface - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2010 - xvii, 255 p.
This book shifts the conversation surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants come to grips with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality. (http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=145398)
9780198066279
Household employees - India - History
India - Social conditions
Master and servant - India - History
Social classes - India - History
340.460954 / R2C8
Cultures of servitude: modernity, domesticity, and class in India, with a new preface - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2010 - xvii, 255 p.
This book shifts the conversation surrounding domestic service away from an emphasis on the crisis of transnational care work to one about the constitution of class. It reveals how employers position themselves as middle and upper classes through evolving methods of servant and home management, even as servants come to grips with the challenges of class and cultural distinction embedded in relations of domination and inequality. (http://www.oup.co.in/search_detail.php?id=145398)
9780198066279
Household employees - India - History
India - Social conditions
Master and servant - India - History
Social classes - India - History
340.460954 / R2C8