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A Maid for Each

Domestic Labor • 1h 7m

Directed by Maher Abi Samra • Documentary • 2016 • 67 minutes

Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the workers and in which the Lebanese employer is master and the worker the property. Zein owns a domestic worker agency in Beirut. He arranges for Asian and African women to work in Lebanese households and assists his clients in choosing 'mail-order' housemaids that will best suit their needs. Advertisement, justice, police are on his side. He decides to open his agency for us.

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a maid for each, area studies, beirut, business, business ethics, critical thinking and ethics, domestic service, domestic work, economics, ethics, expository, gender studies, housekeeping, housemaids, human rights, icarus films, labor, labor and economics, labor studies, lebanon, maids, mail order, middle east and north africa, middle east studies, ovid, philosophy, s_0085, s_0099, s_0150, s_0166, s_0263, s_0290, s_0362, s_0437, s_0631, s_0668, sectors, social issues, sociology, title_m, women's rights, women's studies, world regions

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