"Based on the case of migrant Filipina live-in domestic workers in Greece, this book focuses on the repercussions of precarious, low-status/low-wage occupations on their participation in primary and secondary groups of solidarity and on their representation in them, i.e., family and community,...

The book is largely based on interviews with domestic workers, but the book also powerfully portrays the larger economic picture as domestic workers from developing countries increasingly come to perform the menial labor of the global economy. This is often done at great cost to the relations...

Trabajadoras en la sombra: dimensiones del servicio doméstico latinoamericano / Séverine Durin, María Eugenia de la O y Santiago Bastos -- Mercado laboral, regulación y ciudadanos: presentación / María Eugenia de la O -- Las nuevas tendencias del empleo doméstico en España / Raquel...

A bounded global market -- Disdained aliens, stratified others -- Jealous madams and anxious mothers -- Crossing borders and gender divides -- Cinderella with a mobile phone -- Eat, drink, masters and servants