Cape Times, 19 March 2010
Review by Eva Hunter

Uncluttered look at legislation, power relations between domestic workers and employers

Shireen Ally’s From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press) is an excellent and readable book.

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In the past decade, hundreds of thousands of women from poorer countries have braved treacherous journeys to richer countries to work as poorly paid domestic workers. In From Servants to Workers, Shireen Ally asks whether the low wages and poor working conditions so characteristic of migrant domestic work can truly be resolved by means of the extension of citizenship rights. [More]

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