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CIAO DATE: 3/99
In Service and Servitude Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian “Modernity” Project
Christine B.N. Chin
Columbia University Press
1998
Bibliographic Data
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Arranging and Rearranging the Interior Frontiers of Society “Boys, Amahs, and Girls”: Domestic Workers of the Past and Present The Malaysian-Philippine-Indonesian Maid Trade Infrapolitics of Domestic Service: Strategies of, and Resistances to, Control Modernity Via Consumption: Domestic Service and the Making of the Modern Malaysian Middle Classes Conclusion Glossary Bibliography
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Arranging and Rearranging the Interior Frontiers of Society
“Boys, Amahs, and Girls”: Domestic Workers of the Past and Present
The Malaysian-Philippine-Indonesian Maid Trade
Infrapolitics of Domestic Service: Strategies of, and Resistances to, Control
Modernity Via Consumption: Domestic Service and the Making of the Modern Malaysian Middle Classes
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Map of Southeast Asia 
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