Book Review: Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofano Geymonat

Abstract

almost two hundred years of history. The earlier historical coverage usefully sets the scene, but the coverage is skewed, no doubt intentionally, towards producing a history of the system’s operation since the late 1970s onwards. The book is set out chronologically, which suits its overall goal, but I found that there were occasionally thematic links within, and between, chapters that might have been tied together. Perhaps these links could have been better addressed in the concluding chapter or better signposted at the start or end of a given chapter. Despite this very small criticism, this text is an engrossing read, passionately written with a good dose of hope, yet incisive about the frustrated attempts to enact radical reform in Aotearoa. A Political History of Child Protection will be of value to students, academics and policy makers seeking to gain an in-depth understanding of child protection system and attempts at its reform in Aotearoa, as well as to those seeking lessons about the challenges of systemic child protection reform internationally.