Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice
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Resumo: | This article looks after the specific form of exploitation in contemporary domestic service by a focus on female labour force from the plantation societies’ working class in the global economy of domestic service. The case study of Mauritius relates to the intensification of domestic service use in the context of deindustrialization and global cities’ transnational webs. Rather than exploring domestic service work from the perspective of the social reproduction and domestic economy of the served household, I consider first domestic service as a factor of production of the economic development according to Mauritian postcolonial State’s plan. The analysis of the empirical data collected during an 8 months’ fieldwork period brings together three units of analysis: the national productive context, past and present domestic service relations according to maids and employers’ representations, and the proper maids’ household. These analytical tools give evidence of the modernity of colonial power references in the making of the neoliberal exploitation of women’s time in domestic service, and of the way by which this work has turned a major site of class conflicts. This article aims to contribute to the literature on the transnational forms of exploitation in domestic service, as to the studies on the history of class relations to which the domestic workers belong. |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Mauricedomestic serviceplantationglobal citysocial relationshipmoral economyMauritiusThis article looks after the specific form of exploitation in contemporary domestic service by a focus on female labour force from the plantation societies’ working class in the global economy of domestic service. The case study of Mauritius relates to the intensification of domestic service use in the context of deindustrialization and global cities’ transnational webs. Rather than exploring domestic service work from the perspective of the social reproduction and domestic economy of the served household, I consider first domestic service as a factor of production of the economic development according to Mauritian postcolonial State’s plan. The analysis of the empirical data collected during an 8 months’ fieldwork period brings together three units of analysis: the national productive context, past and present domestic service relations according to maids and employers’ representations, and the proper maids’ household. These analytical tools give evidence of the modernity of colonial power references in the making of the neoliberal exploitation of women’s time in domestic service, and of the way by which this work has turned a major site of class conflicts. This article aims to contribute to the literature on the transnational forms of exploitation in domestic service, as to the studies on the history of class relations to which the domestic workers belong.Cet article interroge la forme spécifique d’exploitation des femmes dans les services domestiques aujourd’hui en portant le regard sur la place de la main-d’oeuvre féminine issue de la classe des travailleurs des sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Il étudie pour cela le cas de l’intensification des usages des services domestiques à l’Ile Maurice dans le contexte de la désindustrialisation de l’île et de son insertion dans les réseaux transnationaux des global cities. A la différence des approches classiques du service domestique dans l’économie domestique et la reproduction sociale du foyer usager des services, la démarche de recherche explorée examine le service domestique comme étant d’abord un facteur de production du développement économique envisagé par l’Etat postcolonial mauricien. Trois unités d’analyse sont articulées pour traiter des données empiriques collectées par une enquête de terrain de huit mois : le contexte productif national contemporain, les rapports de service domestique passés et présents d’après les représentations de bonnes et d’employeuses et le propre foyer de travailleuses domestiques. Ces outils d’analyse permettent de mettre en évidence la modernité des références coloniales du pouvoir qui sont mobilisées par les procédés d’exploitation néolibérale du temps des femmes dans les services domestiques, et la façon dont ce travail est devenu un site majeur du conflit de classe. L’article entend contribuer à la littérature sur les formes transnationales d’exploitation dans les services domestiques et sur l’histoire des rapports de classe dont les travailleuses domestiques font pleinement partie.Centro de Estudos Territoriais. ISCTERepositório da Universidade de LisboaLe Petitcorps, Colette2021-02-16T14:11:47Z20202020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/46381fraLe Petitcorps, C. (2020). Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice. Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, 40, 1-152182-303010.15847/cct.jun2020.040.doss-art01info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:48:39Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/46381Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:58:34.552358Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice Le Petitcorps, Colette domestic service plantation global city social relationship moral economy Mauritius |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Les sociétés de plantation dans l’économie globale des services domestiques. Le cas de l’Ile Maurice |
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Le Petitcorps, Colette |
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Le Petitcorps, Colette |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Le Petitcorps, Colette |
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domestic service plantation global city social relationship moral economy Mauritius |
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domestic service plantation global city social relationship moral economy Mauritius |
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This article looks after the specific form of exploitation in contemporary domestic service by a focus on female labour force from the plantation societies’ working class in the global economy of domestic service. The case study of Mauritius relates to the intensification of domestic service use in the context of deindustrialization and global cities’ transnational webs. Rather than exploring domestic service work from the perspective of the social reproduction and domestic economy of the served household, I consider first domestic service as a factor of production of the economic development according to Mauritian postcolonial State’s plan. The analysis of the empirical data collected during an 8 months’ fieldwork period brings together three units of analysis: the national productive context, past and present domestic service relations according to maids and employers’ representations, and the proper maids’ household. These analytical tools give evidence of the modernity of colonial power references in the making of the neoliberal exploitation of women’s time in domestic service, and of the way by which this work has turned a major site of class conflicts. This article aims to contribute to the literature on the transnational forms of exploitation in domestic service, as to the studies on the history of class relations to which the domestic workers belong. |
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