Vietnam's socialist servants : domesticity, class, gender, and identity / Minh T.N. Nguyen.
"Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of...
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Abington, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Series: | Asia's transformations ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Live in, live out, live in the middle of nowhere: labour regimes and market structure
- Power at work: between harmony and hierarchy
- Unruly servants, erotic bodies and cultural delinquents: the representation of domestic service
- Needs, consumption, and domestic service
- Between work and home: boundaries, connections and gendered expectations
- Narrating identity: the power and limits of individual life choice
- Domesticity, gender, class, and identity.