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also Indonesians but from the lower classes
p2 - additionally no social mobility in this model
nonetheless the relationship has kinship aspects, i.e. the servants status resembles that of a poor kind woman 
seen in important role that female servants play in raising children
p3- in this pattern servant lives out her life with one family; entitled to some inheritance on death of employer;
raises her family in servants quarters in back
altho poor of exploitation, refual & otherwise, there, in general quality of relationship better and not monetary only

c) relation between Indonesians who belong to the haves & poor women at home here talking about disembedded [[strikethrough]]relationships[[strikethrough]] relationships more common today
more egolitaian 
[[strikethrough]] seen on outer islands more commonly 
p4 if relationship continues long enough, however, can also take on quasi-kinship aspects

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type c, acc to dhoti, becoming more common
here the servant has self-respect & can more freely leave if her employment conditions are unsatisfactory 
nowadays also some employers are willing to help their servants gain   upw and mobility

contractual relations of the type seen in industrialised nations, where social benefits spelled ut in detail with attention to labor regulations, extremely rare
social guarantees for servants can only be provided by employers who are wealthy enough and ave enough social consciousness - so that this could become a system, needs the force of law behind it
does not seem realistic now since many housewives who are borderline (lower middle class) would probably stop using servants

p5 at best we are now in a transitional stage & can hope for a humanitarian approach to the future of servants

actuality of their lives as follows: