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Paid domestic work is a feature of households all over the world, from Ecuador to Swaziland, from Spain to the Ivory Coast. In many countries it probably constitutes the single largest female employment sector (though its invisibility can make this difficult to document). It is work that is predominantly performed by women, usually managed by other women.
I would like to thank the editor of this book for inviting a chapter from Kalayaan and for the opportunity to write about migrant domestic workers and slavery.
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Anderson, B. (2004). Migrant Domestic Workers and Slavery. In: van den Anker, C. (eds) The Political Economy of New Slavery. Palgrave Texts in International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403937865_7
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