Hired Daughters: Domestic Workers among Ordinary Moroccans

An analysis of the customs and traditions of employing household help in Morocco, and the evolving rural and urban views toward domestic servitude.

Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were placed in their homes until marriage. In this tradition of "bringing up," the girls are considered "daughters of the house," and part of their role in the family is to help with the housework. Gradually, this tradition...