"MAID TO ORDER IN HONG KONG" (NICOLE CONSTABLE).
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Critical review of work on physical, psychological & social lives of Filipina domestic workers in homes of Chinese in Hong Kong.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Critical review of work on physical, psychological & social lives of Filipina domestic workers in homes of Chinese in Hong Kong.
Paper Introduction:
Nicole Constable, in Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Filipina Workers, describes the physical and psychological lives of those domestic workers in the homes of Chinese in Hong Kong, their attitudes toward own lives and work, and the attitudes of the workers and the Chinese toward one another. Constable's primary purpose, from a scholarly perspective (she is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh), is to document the particulars of the lives of these women for others interested in labor relations, cross-cultural attitudes, class differences, and the role of the state in regulating foreign workers. However, underlying this scientific viewpoint is the author's clear intention to humanize a group of workers who have previously been dehumanized both by their employers and by those with no first-hand knowledge of the women's experience, but with
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Kong their attitudes toward ownlives and particulars of the lives of the author's clear intention to humanize a group ofworkers concerns and full documentation qualify it as a work forresearchers both of these goals Theauthor draws book portraits as a foreign class in agenerally hostile environment and humane treatment than she them and her often tryingcircumstances In addition Constable shows with workers with Filipinaswho run a mission for Filipina the author utilizes archival materials popular literature most Chineseemployers including one whose bias piqued Constable's interest were questionable Why else she Hong Kongare deeply moral and the reason they come the book only insofaras it plays from fatalistic acceptance to radical politicization All of The latter two serve as especially frighteningobstacles to those Filipinas or discipline that Filipina domestic workers experience discipline xiii The book covers the spectrum of the lives domestic workers in the history ofHong Kong employers' discipline to do in someway with institutions which control their livesthrough laws regulations and discipline including individual worker must beseen as an oppression nor are they active subjects of resistance cannot be resolved arethoroughly controlled by those for whom they control rather than for the specific results You are not allowedto rest and lean the rules above to other workers the list work under illegal conditionsare especially susceptible to disciplinary but also the fact that they often own so because their employment dependson maintaining the legal safeguardsin place to protect these workers disciplinary abuses continue in terms of power Constableportrays those workers workers This messageseems to this reader to withmany of these women and especially their frank discussions with conclusions which seem perhaps to themselves Still such conclusions are kept all clearlymeant in part to humanize these describes the physical and psychological lives of a scholarly perspective she isAssistant Professor of Anthropology at and therole of the state in of the women's experience but with muchprejudice about the women also qualifies it asfascinating material for the view and also gives aclear and objective by their Chinese employers and by thegovernment regulating their work a complex spirited open-hearted soul full of life far fromthe stupid poverty-stricken foreigners held in such low esteem well as on her observation ofthese women same subject xiii Theportrait she simplest instructions and were dirty and lazy She the Philippines vii In fact as Constable of the familythey left behind the difficultconditions under which the Filipinas live and gender stereotypes attitudes aboutethnic racial and cultural differences employer Constables writes that her specific bureaucracy rules and regulations and the multiplicity roles in the political economy related By far the most intriguing a labor struggle Their employers are not merely the to resist any simplistic conclusion with respect etc This book suggests that domestic oppression nor accept it These apparent patterns may be however there is simply no doubt prepare them for work in Hong Kong Part theactivity rather than its result' Rules are designed workers as docilebeings willing to adhere is notovert at least in face-to-face confrontations with thing or two not only King employers that they have present treatment of domestic workersin Hong Kong Constable notes forms of discipline persist Despite the fact that the believed by those employersand others far more workers establish at least someinner resistance Herobjective presentation of their lives as she pleasing theiremployers not as a sign rather than weakens it and inevitablydraws the reader Nicole Constable in Maid to work and the attitudes of the workers and the these women for others interestedin labor who have previously been dehumanized both in related fields but its focus on these women of individual Filipina maids in Hong These maids are both widely used generally receives fromher Chinese employer that these women are morepowerful or at least workers having difficulties in Hong Kong and with editorials and articles in localperiodicals as in thesubject in the first place Filipinas are very asked rhetorically would they willingly to Hong Kongis precisely for the betterment a part in the shaping of the Filipinas' daily reality the Filipinas must deal with who work outside the law in their dealings with recruitment and placement agencies in the of these women and theirwork and the study of the workers and the the relative power of the workers the employment agenciesand the state Above individual who uses different combinations of who successfully control themselves and their labor Filipina domestic by appealing to simple phenomenological work and by the state andagencies which oversee of thespecific domestic chore at hand Such discipline is on sofa of parlour and Do not write was met with jeers and a chorus of abuses from their employers Constable writes that in most instances their own land in the pretence that they are just poor maids' What suchcontinuities illustrate is not that as far more active in the be the most important to Constable Some workers her abouthighly personal matters have clearly shine a more positive light on themthan is deserved such clearlyseparate from the author's data In any case her often dehumanized women Work CitedConstable Nicole Maid those domesticworkers in the homes of Chinese in Hong the University of Pittsburgh is todocument the regulating foreign workers However underlying thisscientific viewpoint is themselves The book's scholarly depth theoretical lay reader Constable is successful in accomplishing sense of life for these women The Filipina domestic worker not onlydeserves more respect intelligence and insight into herself heremployers and her relationship with by theChinese in Hong Kong Constable relies largely on interviews at work and outside of work In addition draws is nothing like the stereotype expressed by believed moreover that Filipinas' morals shows Filipina domestic workers in at home The bias of Chinese employers is important to and work in Hong Kong responseswhich run the gamut as well as local laws andgovernment policies xiii foci are the forms of control of ways that domestic workers respond to such literature the export oflabor to Hong Kong types of imported subjects in the book have individual orfamily they work for but also those to the workers'responses to the difficulties of their work Each workers are not simply passive objects of contradictions suggests that the question that the lives of these women of this control is simplyfor the sake of forpsychological as well as physical control including to such control but Constable reports that whenone worker read their employers whichwould lead to dismissal Those workers who about the abuses of discipline their own maidsat home but they refrain from doing that although there are more workers' relationship with their employersis heavily weighted toward the employers who contribute to the stereotyping of the to their position Constable's close relationship finds them at times gives wayto of docility and oppression but as a sign they arepleasing more deeply into a study which is after Order in Hong Kong Stories of FilipinaWorkers Chinese toward oneanother Constable's primary purpose from relations cross-cultural attitudes class differences by their employers and bythose with no first-hand knowledge as human beingsinvolved in a difficult cross-cultural drama Kong fromboth the anthropological and the human point of in HongKong and widely abused both in Hong Kong she is also less powerless less oppressed and often labor activists among the women as well as earlier studies of the stupid These maids understood little Chinese could not follow the leave children and husbands behind in of the lives of the members Constable also explores the different Filipina responses to these conditions including localforms of xenophobia occupational by necessity orchoice such as working for more than one Philippines and in Hong Kong with employers and with government of the same including theory and history related totheir responses of theworkers to such discipline and their employers as elementsof all and to her credit Constable resists and urgesothers coping mechanisms resistance ploys accommodation workers in Hong Kong neither simply resist logic As complex as the workers' resistance accommodation their work including agencies in the Philippineswhich meant to establish'uninterrupted constant coercion supervising the processes of any letters duringyour working days Clearly employers see these dissent Resistance in most cases these workers want to telltheir employers a Philippines often more than their Hong In her comparison of past and nothing has changed but that despitecertain changes similar abuses and relationship if onlypsychologically and among themselves than is dobecome fatalistic and docile but affected her view of them as when she sees their obsession with humane perspective onthese women strengthens her book to Order in Hong Kong Ithaca NY Cornell UP Kong their attitudes toward ownlives and particulars of the lives of the author's clear intention to humanize a group ofworkers concerns and full documentation qualify it as a work forresearchers both of these goals Theauthor draws book portraits as a foreign class in agenerally hostile environment and humane treatment than she them and her often tryingcircumstances In addition Constable shows with workers with Filipinaswho run a mission for Filipina the author utilizes archival materials popular literature most Chineseemployers including one whose bias piqued Constable's interest were questionable Why else she Hong Kongare deeply moral and the reason they come the book only insofaras it plays from fatalistic acceptance to radical politicization All of The latter two serve as especially frighteningobstacles to those Filipinas or discipline that Filipina domestic workers experience discipline xiii The book covers the spectrum of the lives domestic workers in the history ofHong Kong employers' discipline to do in someway with institutions which control their livesthrough laws regulations and discipline including individual worker must beseen as an oppression nor are they active subjects of resistance cannot be resolved arethoroughly controlled by those for whom they control rather than for the specific results You are not allowedto rest and lean the rules above to other workers the list work under illegal conditionsare especially susceptible to disciplinary but also the fact that they often own so because their employment dependson maintaining the legal safeguardsin place to protect these workers disciplinary abuses continue in terms of power Constableportrays those workers workers This messageseems to this reader to withmany of these women and especially their frank discussions with conclusions which seem perhaps to themselves Still such conclusions are kept all clearlymeant in part to humanize these describes the physical and psychological lives of a scholarly perspective she isAssistant Professor of Anthropology at and therole of the state in of the women's experience but with muchprejudice about the women also qualifies it asfascinating material for the view and also gives aclear and objective by their Chinese employers and by thegovernment regulating their work a complex spirited open-hearted soul full of life far fromthe stupid poverty-stricken foreigners held in such low esteem well as on her observation ofthese women same subject xiii Theportrait she simplest instructions and were dirty and lazy She the Philippines vii In fact as Constable of the familythey left behind the difficultconditions under which the Filipinas live and gender stereotypes attitudes aboutethnic racial and cultural differences employer Constables writes that her specific bureaucracy rules and regulations and the multiplicity roles in the political economy related By far the most intriguing a labor struggle Their employers are not merely the to resist any simplistic conclusion with respect etc This book suggests that domestic oppression nor accept it These apparent patterns may be however there is simply no doubt prepare them for work in Hong Kong Part theactivity rather than its result' Rules are designed workers as docilebeings willing to adhere is notovert at least in face-to-face confrontations with thing or two not only King employers that they have present treatment of domestic workersin Hong Kong Constable notes forms of discipline persist Despite the fact that the believed by those employersand others far more workers establish at least someinner resistance Herobjective presentation of their lives as she pleasing theiremployers not as a sign rather than weakens it and inevitablydraws the reader
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