Disposable nannies
Domestic servants in the political economy of South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904436 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacklyn Cock (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Publication date | 1981-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056248108703467 |
| OpenAlex | W2062234534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 12 |
Roughly 89 per cent of domestic servants in South Africa are black and of these about 88 per cent are women. Domestic service accounts for the employment of 38 per cent of black women whose conditions of work are the least protected within one of the most regimented labour forces in the world. The institution of black domestic labour socialises whites into the dominant ideological order of race and exposes servants to its most humiliating practices. Black servants are coerced into dependency upon their employers but white women are also dependents within the patriarchal structures of capital. In this article the author explores the ideas generated by the domestic labour debate to understand the role of domestic labour in South Africa in the reproduction of labour power and examines some of the contradictory trends in the conditions of reproduction within the capitalist economy
Capital (architecture · Domestic work · Economics · Economy · Geography · Ideology · Institution · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Service (business · Sociology · White (mutation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
Buttressing Whiteness by Confessing Guilt and Rejecting Racism
Generalizing disposability
Cooperação e competição entre emigrantes brasileiras
En territorio hostil
Ties that bind
Infrastructures of social reproduction
Co-opting domesticity
Women's Rights After War
Out the back
Putting Down Markers
Class, race and gender
The Social Construction of Gender
Corporate Amazons or Empowerment Spice Girls
Labor and monopoly capital
The class structure of the advanced societies.
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
The Social Cohesion of Liberal Democracy
Rural Women's Subsistence Production in the Capitalist Periphery
Beyond the Domestic Labour Debate
Some Notes on Female Wage Labour in Capitalist Production
Welfare State and Reproduction of Labour Power
White Prosperity and White Supremacy in South Africa Today
The Social Cohesion of Liberal Democracy
Capitalism and cheap labour-power in South Africa
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2024 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |