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Domestic services: Employer-employee relationships under economic reforms in urban Vietnam.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Domestic services: Employer-employee relationships under economic reforms in urban Vietnam./
Author:	Nguyen, Kim Ha.
Description:	273 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2334.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR39375
ISBN:	9780494393758

Domestic services: Employer-employee relationships under economic reforms in urban Vietnam.
Nguyen, Kim Ha.

Domestic services: Employer-employee relationships under economic reforms in urban Vietnam. - 273 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-06, Section: A, page: 2334.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2007.

This dissertation examines employer-employee relationships in domestic services in urban Hanoi in order to contribute to a fuller understanding of gender and class relations under economic reforms in Vietnam since 1986. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted with 24 female domestic workers and their employers, owners of domestic employment agencies, rural recruiters, former domestic workers, domestics' relatives in Hanoi and in Vinh Phuc province.

ISBN: 9780494393758Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Domestic services: Employer-employee relationships under economic reforms in urban Vietnam.
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520 $a This dissertation examines employer-employee relationships in domestic services in urban Hanoi in order to contribute to a fuller understanding of gender and class relations under economic reforms in Vietnam since 1986. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted with 24 female domestic workers and their employers, owners of domestic employment agencies, rural recruiters, former domestic workers, domestics' relatives in Hanoi and in Vinh Phuc province.
520 $a I argue that due to a gender bias in state policies and local discourses, both female domestic workers and their female employers have suffered similarly from economic reforms. The withdrawal of state subsidies in health, education and social services has shifted more burdens to households and specifically to women in the context of local definitions of women's family responsibilities. A number of rural women have become domestic workers, and many urban women, their employers, in order to fulfill their family duties. Both groups of women tend to define themselves in terms of the four feminine virtues and struggle with the image of women both good at paid work and excelling at home.
520 $a Negotiation and resistance occur when women get involved in domestics service as domestics and employers. The emphasis on harmonious relationships in Vietnamese culture, rooted in Confucianism, tends to obscure the actual relations of class conflict and struggle that are integral to employer-employee relationships. Although the class concept is typically not used to explain problems and conflicts, they are underlain by some class awareness and class struggle which are partially obscured because the boundary between employers and domestics is not always clear cut. I argue that domestic services in urban Hanoi need to be understood within the context of the political economy of gender and class relations under economic reforms.
520 $a This dissertation contributes to the fields of gender studies, sociology, political economy, Vietnamese studies, and to the study of the restructuring of contemporary nation-states and societies under neo-liberal reforms. It hopes to provide useful information to scholars interested in Vietnam and domestic work, as well as to policy makers, planners, and activists who would like to "make" domestics more visible in a labour market through legal reforms.
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