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Author: Jeanne Boydston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780195085617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation This book is a history of housework in the United States prior to the Civil War. More particularly, it is a history of women's unpaid domestic labour in the context of the emergence of an industrialized society in the northern United States.
Author: Nancy F. Cott
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on the conflict between ideology and actuality in women's domestic lives, throughout the history of the United States. This text also explores the content of domestic labour and domestic production, for both the mistress and female servant of a household.
Author: Jacqueline Andall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1351934481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed almost exclusively as live-in domestic workers and detailed attention is paid to the history and political organization of this sector. Unlike much published work in Italian, this book adopts an integrated form of analysis where gender, ethnicity and class are seen to be interconnected constructs. The book also situates Black women within the framework of the national constituency of gender. This approach challenges the ideology surrounding the Italian family and demonstrates that while live-in domestic work created specific forms of social marginality for Black women, it paradoxically allowed Italian women to express their new social identities within and outside the family. The book concludes that Italian women have largely failed in their attempts to transform the division of labour within the home and that the decision to employ other (migrant) women to fulfill household tasks is a trend which sits uneasily within the framework of an inclusive feminist project for women.
Author: Elizabeth Langland
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780801482205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLangland argues that the middle-class wife had a more complex and important function than has previously been recognized: she mastered skills that enabled her to support a rigid class system while unknowingly setting the stage for a feminist revolution.
Author: Merike Blofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0271053275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the movement for labor reform among domestic workers in Latin America. Explores how domestic workers' mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity can lead to improved rights"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Katarzyna Suwada
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 3030663035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by individual preferences and choices, but significantly by the institutional context, in particular the family policy system, as well as socio-cultural norms of how men and women should fulfill parental roles. The author distinguishes between different kinds of work done in connection to parenthood and shows how the existing institutional system reinforces gender and other forms of social inequalities even in a post-communist state like Poland. The author demonstrates that Polish society has different expectations and institutional norms related to work and gender norms compared to those in long-standing democracies in Europe and elsewhere. The book also shows that the experiences of parenthood in Poland are different between men and women, between single and coupled parents, and based on economic and other resources. This book is of interest to social science students and researchers of family studies, parenting, sociology of work, and social structure in post-communist societies.
Author: Nancy F. Cott
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 3110968851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on the conflict between ideology and actuality in women's domestic lives, throughout the history of the United States. This text also explores the content of domestic labour and domestic production, for both the mistress and female servant of a household.
Author: Judith Rollins
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780877224914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween Women is the result of forty in-depth interviews, interviews enhanced by the author's own experience as a domestic worker for ten employers in the greater Boston area. The reader is quickly drawn into the world of domestic workers as the author allows the women to speak for themselves whenever possible. Clearly relevant to labor studies, women's studies and black studies, at its essence this book is a study of the social psychology of relationships of domination. Yet, while focusing on these relationships, the author never loses sight of the larger social structure and how it affects and is affected by employer-domestic dyads. The opening chapter provides an overview of domestic service in the Western tradition, most notably a detailed history of servitude in the South and northeastern United States, with brief attention to a few non-Western locales. Then, what follows is a description of the conditions of work--the physical labor, hours, compensation, and problems--with the focus on the women and the major dynamics of their relationships. Unlike many works on domination, this book gives as much attention to the effects on the minds and lives of the employers as it does to the effects on the domestics. And it is this exploration, in particular--of the demands, reactions, preferences and perceptions of employers--that reveals how this labor arrangement functions ideologically as well as materially to support the class, gender and racial hierarchies of this country. Author note: Judith Rollins is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simmons College in Boston.
Author: Amrita Chhachhi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1996-04-12
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1349244503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting State, Capital and Patriarchy brings together documentation of women's struggles in the process of industrialisation, within and outside traditional workers' organizations. With contributions from researchers and activists particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the volume gives a broad display of both the constraints, and the ingenuity and determination with which women workers strive to improve their situation. Through both theory and rich empirical detail, the volume demonstrates the integral linkages between the home, workplace, and the state and international arenas, and between activists and academe in response to technological and industrial restructuring.
Author: Susanna Rosenbaum
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0822372266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women—Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them—seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, she illustrates how immigrant and native-born women strive to reach that ideal, how each group is indispensable to the other's quest, and what a vital role reproductive labor plays in this pursuit. Through in-depth ethnographic research with these women at work, at home, and in the urban spaces of Los Angeles, Rosenbaum positions domestic service as an intimate relationship that reveals two versions of female personhood. Throughout, Rosenbaum underscores the extent to which the ideology of the American Dream is racialized and gendered, exposing how the struggle for personal worth and social recognition is shaped at the intersection of motherhood and paid employment.
