The unforgiving work environment of black African women domestic workers in a post-apartheid South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4851144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Quraisha Dawood (0000-0002-6234-3792, Santa Barbara Business College, corresponding author), M Seedat-Khan, Mariam Seedat‐Khan (0000-0001-9056-2282) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 168-179 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development in Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09614524.2022.2115977 |
| OpenAlex | W4293434649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 29 |
In democratic South Africa, many Black African women are still subjugated by being employed as domestic workers. Increasing evidence emerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic revealing unmistakable signs of modern-day slavery among South African Black domestic workers. This paper proposes a clinical model which examines how gender, class, and race intersections affect the ways in which specifically identified change agents offer new, transforming interventions via clinical intervention. Adopting a clinical approach augments identification of a specific social problem from a scientifically systematic applied approach built on applied theory. We report on the conditions facing vulnerable Black African women using a bricolage research approach. The resulting model explicitly identifies systemic inequalities and indicates how to reduce exploitation and protect workers. The bricolage approach aided the secondary qualitative analysis of complex bonded-labour intersections. The problem of Black African women living as bonded domestic labour is augmented by the girl children’s primary socialisation, Western patriarchal re-socialisation which sustains apartheid, and race, class, occupational, and gender inequalities
Bricolage · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Intersectionality · Pandemic · Political science · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma
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Human Nature and the Social Order
Domestics, ‘Dirty Work’ and the Affects of Domination
Conducting secondary analysis of qualitative data
An Investigation of the Challenges Faced by Female Domestic Workers
Denunciations of dependence
Decent Work, ILO’s Response to the Globalization of Working Life
Exploring the bullying behaviours experienced by South African domestic workers
Domestic Workers' Experiences of Power and Oppression in South Africa
Domestic Work and the Gig Economy in South Africa
Modern-day slavery? The work-life conflict of domestic workers in Nigeria
The “Practice of Humanity”
Domestic workers’ rights in global development indicators
Introduction
Class, race and gender
The social construction of reality
Durkheim's Paradigm
Theorising Patriarchy
Sister-Madam
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |