Negotiating social boundaries and the management of leisure time within the domestic household : the micropolitics between maids and madams

• Main Author: Erni Nurain Mohd Salleh
• Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social stratification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43791
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The employment of migrant domestic workers has led to the home becoming a contested space between employers and their domestic workers. With the state’s minimalist intervention over these workers’ working condition and the relegation of discipline to individual employers, social boundaries and priva...