The dynamics of employer-worker relationships and their implications on the child caregiving style of foreign domestic workers (FDW) in Singapore

• Main Author: Yeo, Tsiu Wen
• Other Authors: Xiao Hong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences; DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66172
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines how the relationship between foreign domestic workers (FDW) and employers have implications on the child caregiving style that FDWs take on. Using boundary work and emotional labour as key frameworks, the research explores how boundaries of hierarchy and control are maintained us...