LABR 3Q92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Labour Power, Neoliberalism, Thesis Statement

• School: Brock University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 3Q92
• Professor: Kori Allan

Document Summary

Had to implement neoliberal policies (public goods privatized) Put more women in global south into labour market. Based on gender ideologies (seen as more docile/dependent workers) Migrating from global south to north survival circuits (flow of migrants from global south to north) that help migrants survive. Increased demand for care work (low paid, service work) Govnts have invested interest in encouraging citizens to migrate, way for hard currency to circulate in their economy (philippine govnt) 1982, organizes and supervises export off maids and nurses. Social reproduction costs are not paid for by the countries receiving these workers. Ideologies of race, gender, class etc. shape labour recruitment and migration (most speak english which is an asset, seen as agreeable/docile workers) Lorente (2010): filipina supermaids reproduced scripts of servitude and sold skills as added value . Labour power commodified as product maid to order -which requires styling and emotional labour. Three elements of emotional life on delta air for stewardess.