Be modern, be ‘civil’ to domestic servants March 7, 2010, 5:59 AM IST MJ Akbar in The Siege Within , India , TOI Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email ...

According to Malaysian officials, 240,000 women are working as domestic servants in the country and over 90 percent are Indonesian. ... It is a modern-day equivalent of the slave trade, ...

Domestic servant abuse extends beyond the novel, ... Milly go out in a tornado to use the outside bathroom, was shocking the reality for modern day domestic help around the world is much worse.

Affluent liberals' purported compassion bears a striking resemblance to self-interest. In fact, like their 19th-century ...

From Upstairs, Downstairs to Gosford Park and Downton Abbey, TV dramas and films have made us care about the characters below stairs. Domestic service was Britain's biggest employer a century ago ...

Research by social justice organisation the Mercy Foundation has highlighted the abuse of domestic workers at Canberra embassies, indicating a persistent risk of modern slavery. And it doesn't not ...

'The status of civil servants is modern, contrary to what is often said' Op-Ed. Group letter. The often criticized status of civil servant ensures stability and independence for government employees.

According to reporter Partlon, there were about 30 members of the Housemaids Union, a minuscule sample of the women employed locally as domestic servants in 1901. The United States Census recorded ...

A hundred years ago, according to a recent book, domestic servants constituted Britain’s largest source of employment. That simple statistic reveals, better than anything else, the inequality of ...