Distant Companions : Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 / Karen Tranberg Hansen
1989, 1st edition. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press. Fine cloth copy. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #386925
ISBN: 0801422175
Physical description; 321 pp. Contents; Part I. Fixture of Colonial Society -- 1. The Creation of a Gender Role: The Male Domestic Servant -- 2. Women For Hire? Sex And Gender In Domestic Service -- 3. Troubled Lives: Servants and Their Employers in the Preindependence Era -- Part II. Encountering Domestic Service -- 4. Research On And Life With Servants -- PART III. Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Changes -- 5. Persistence and Change -- 6. A Transformed Occupation -- 7. Lives Beyond the Workplace -- 8. Servants Everywhere: Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Servants' Wages -- Appendix 2. Servants' Budgets -- Index. Subjects; Geschichte 1900-1985. Household employees Zambia History 20th century. Master and servant Zambia. Sexual division of labor. African Hist & Diaspora. Zambia Colonial influence.
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