Home Economics - Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa

Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book offers essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africa's post-colonial and post-apartheid history.

Info autore

Sacha Hepburn is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London

Riassunto

Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africa’s post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book offers essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern Africa’s post-colonial and post-apartheid history. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sacha Hepburn, Sacha (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) Hepburn
• Con la collaborazione di: Lynn Abrams (Editore)
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781526162021
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6202-1
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Gender in History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, Zambia, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General