Based on research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, this book explores the changes in women's lifestyles from traditional rural lifestyles to modern urban ones.
Based on research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, this book explores the changes in women's lifestyles from traditional rural lifestyles to modern urban ones.
HEW Cheng Sim teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universtiy of Malaysia, Sarawak.
Inhaltsangabe
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. A Methodological DiscussionChapter 3. Doing Fieldwork at HomeChapter 4. The Socio-Economic Context of ChangeChapter 5. To Market, To Market: Rural-Urban Migration and Becoming ModernChapter 6. Overqualified and Underpaid: Wage Work in the Personal Services SectorChapter 7. Sex and Salaries: Single Women Migrants in the CityChapter 8. Marriage, Money and Men: Working Mothers and their HouseholdsChapter 9. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Leaves Wage Work: Bidayuh HousewivesChapter 10. Holding their Own: Four Women and their StoriesChapter 11. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. A Methodological DiscussionChapter 3. Doing Fieldwork at HomeChapter 4. The Socio-Economic Context of ChangeChapter 5. To Market, To Market: Rural-Urban Migration and Becoming ModernChapter 6. Overqualified and Underpaid: Wage Work in the Personal Services SectorChapter 7. Sex and Salaries: Single Women Migrants in the CityChapter 8. Marriage, Money and Men: Working Mothers and their HouseholdsChapter 9. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Leaves Wage Work: Bidayuh HousewivesChapter 10. Holding their Own: Four Women and their StoriesChapter 11. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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