SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Double Burden, Domestic Worker
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Migrant filipina domestic workers and the international division. Filipino migration is often assumed to be a middle-class professional stream (e. g. nurs- es) but 2/3 of the female labour are domestic workers. reproductive labour refer to the labour needed to sustain the productive labour force. When class-privileged hire filipino worker, simultaneously, the filipino worker hire a filipino domestic worker in philippines to produce reproductive labour. Globalization sparked the feminization of migrant labor. Many of the low paying jobs created in advance, capitalist countries are consid- ered traditional women"s work. As economy grows, more local female joins the work force. it is left to migrant females to do the female domestic work" at home. Middle class jobs (e. g. office clerk) have lower wage than domestic work in us. According to arlie hoshchild, men do less housework than their partners. Men who earned less than their wives were even less likely to share housework. Hence women are coped with double day.
