Home economics constitutes the first comprehensive history of domestic service in black households in Southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Its innovative theoretical approach brings a wide range of labour relations and workers into a single frame of analysis and foregrounds the labour of women and children. Using the case study of Lusaka, it reveals how novel forms of domestic service were developed in response to decolonisation, economic decline, structural adjustment, and enduring inequalities and explores efforts to formalise and organise these largely informal and intimate forms of work. Drawing on rich oral and documentary sources, the book provides unprecedented insights into the lives and perspectives of women and girl domestic workers and their employers and into the gendered and generational dynamics of domestic service. Overall, it offers essential insights into the nature of gender, labour, and urban economies across the region. -- .

Book Information
ISBN 9781526162021
Author Sacha Hepburn
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publisher Manchester University Press
Weight(grams) 138g