houseworker

Such cultural bias lessens as the text progresses, and Page sometimes even manages affection for her neighbors, as when one houseworker is found to protect her place in open books with flower petals, a choice that Page finds charming.

There are an estimated 40,000 houseworker visas whose fees are processed by recruitment offices.

In five relatively short chapters, the book sets out the relationship between women's role as 'houseworker' and their experiences of poverty, sex and violence.

Marlouw asks Jocelyn, Heleen's "imported" houseworKer from South Africa, to help him look into his future, remembering how his mother used to trust signs.

Well, Hudson noted, unlike in Europe where wealthy houses require large staffs most Canadian houses only require a "cook general or houseworker." (71) But these workers had to be trained, indeed certified, and given a regular routine much like a stenographer.

[Thus] housework is an economic activity, even if the houseworker is a spouse who does not receive pecuniary compensation; it involves cost--primarily the opportunity cost of the houseworker's time." (13)

"It could've been eyebrow raising because we had Latinas as houseworkers," he says.