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Karen Tranberg Hansen, “Postscript : Domestic Service as Politics” in Politique africaine Volume 154, Issue 2, May 2019, pages 145 to 147

Growing local and global inequality is giving rise to and helping to constitute contemporary domestic service, including in Africa. In fact, the disappearance of the occupation predicted by sociologists of modernization never materialized. Instead, with a widening gap between society’s bottom and top, domestic service in the twenty-first century comprizes positions ranging from lowly and rarely paid “kept” household help, often young relatives from rural areas, to specially trained butlers servicing the very rich.

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mathieulonglade (22 mai 2022). Karen Tranberg Hansen, “Postscript : Domestic Service as Politics” in Politique africaine Volume 154, Issue 2, May 2019, pages 145 to 147. Politique africaine. Consulté le 24 mars 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/sy10


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