From Vicente Rafaels White Love: By way of background, it is useful to point out the heterogeneous composition of domestic workers in the Philippines at the turn of the century. Colonial households employed predominantly male servants, both Chinese and Filipino, usually obtained through the intercession of a relative already attached to the household or passed down, as it were, from one employer to another. Unlike the United States at this time, where the majority of domestics were females, in the Philippine colony, over three-fourths of the live-in servants were males... Dang imperialism, turned Filipinas into servants. Buy the book, btw: White Love & Other Events in Filipino History, by Vicente L. Rafael, Ateneo de Manila University Press. Also available from Duke University Press in the US.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 02:54:57 +0000
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