SAMANTHA ENSLIN-PAYNE: Work that offered escape now gives little security
The recession presents another risk for the million people who work in private homes
25 June 2017 - 00:04
Domestic work in the early 19th century offered poor women a stepping stone into more respectable society. That was if they headed to South Africa to work in the homes of wealthy settlers in the Cape — leaving Britain, where jobs were scarce.
This is according to the book From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State, by Shireen Ally...
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