Women's work around the world

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Global Women: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild

Both Ehrenreich and Hochschild have written independently on the topic of work, and particularly women's work, in an era of downsizing, outsourcing, commodification of emotional work, the global economy, and vast economic disparities between the First and Third worlds.

In this volume, they have collected a variety of papers that look at how the labour, both physical and emotional, of third world women is being used, and usually exploited, in the service of the needs of men and women in more developed nations, and at the effect this has one the women, their families, and their home communities. Many papers look at the issue of how third world women's domestic labour as nannies and maids is being exploited to support the entry of women in developed or developing nations into the workplace; other papers examine sex tourism and the international movement of sex workers.

An excellent collection of perspectives on this topic, and well worth examining.