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Caring about Care Workers: Organising the Female Shadow of Globalisation

Shireen Ally
University
of the Witwatersrand,  

Introduction

Over the past decade, studies of globalisation have insightfully exposed the global re-organisation of production. But much less has been said about it’s “intimate ‘Other’ ”, the global re-organisation of reproduction (Truong, 1996: 47). In this “female underside of globalization” (Ehrenreich, 2002: 3), women of colour from the global South increasingly labour as reproductive care workers for families in the North