A study of learning, knowledge and processes of reflection within the Worker Education Project

Abrahams, Nazli

A study of learning, knowledge and processes of reflection within the Worker Education Project

Master Thesis

2010

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

School of Education

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

There are over a million women domestic workers in South Africa who are largely overworked,underpaid, unprotected, and undervalued and who are entrenched in a system that denies and reduces the value of their work and their skills. Such conditions are invariably tied to contexts that are historically located. Domestic work is both necessary and valuable; however, in a context dominated by the structured social inequalities of race, class and gender, both their roles in society and their various skills and capacities are too often overlooked. This study explores and tells the stories of women's lives as domestic workers and speaks of their experiences as women, as black women, and as domestic workers.

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