Global Cinderellas

"We might imagine that the more contact we have with others across the globe the closer our social bonds. But, as Pei-Chia Lan so ably shows, we would be sadly wrong about that. In some ways the madams of Taiwan are 'close' to their maids from the Philippines, but in other ways they are very distant from them. Indeed, in some cases the closer we are, the more distant. Just how this works out is the subject of this clearly written, trenchantly argued, hugely important, must-read book."--Arlie Russell Hochschild, coeditor of "Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy"