Contested terrain?: an exploratory study of employment relations between foreign domestic workers and middle-class Chinese employers in Hong Kong
Lee Tsz Lok. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-123). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; ABSTRACT --- p.i ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.iii ; CONTENTS --- p.v ; Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- Introduction: Domestic Work from Premodern to Modern --- p.1 ; Chapter 1.1 --- Research Objective ; Chapter 1.2 --- Research B ackground ; Chapter 1.2.1 --- History of Chinese Domestic Servants ; Chapter 1.2.2 --- Demand for Foreign Domestic Workers ; Chapter 1.2.3 --- Legislation Governing Employment of Foreign Domestic Workers ; Chapter 1.2 --- Research Questions ; Chapter 1.3 --- Research Significances ; Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- Literature Review: Private-Public Interpenetration, Power Relations and Social Negotiations in Domestic Employment --- p.13 ; Chapter 2.1 --- Hegemonies and Homes ; Chapter 2.2 --- Private-Public Distinction ; Chapter 2.3 --- Power Dynamics ; Chapter 2.4 --- Between the Personalized and the Bureaucratized ; Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- Conceptual Framework: The Personalized/ Bureaucratized Typology and Interactive Dynamics in Domestic Employment --- p.25 ; Chapter 3.1 --- Assumptions of the Present Study ; Chapter 3.2 --- Typology of Worker-Employer Relations ; Chapter 3.3 --- The Personalized Type of Relations ; Chapter 3.4 --- The Bureaucratized Type of Relations ; Chapter 3.5 --- Micropolitics in Domestic Work ; Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- Research Methods and Data --- p.39 ; Chapter 4.1 --- Methods and Data Collection ; Chapter 4.2 --- Characteristics of Informants ; Chapter 4.2.1 --- Characteristics of Employers ; Chapter 4.2.2 --- Characteristics of Workers ; Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- The Personalized Type of Relations --- p.45 ; Chapter 5.1 --- Affective-Based Particularism ; Chapter 5.1.1 --- Working Philosophy ; Chapter 5.1.2 --- Workers' Presence in Public Spaces ; Chapter 5.1.3 --- Confrontations ; Chapter 5.2 --- Diffuse Work Obligations ; Chapter 5.3 --- Personal Attachment ; Chapter 5.3.1 --- Materialistic Relationship ; Chapter 5.3.2 --- ...