SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Domestic Worker, W. M. Keck Observatory, Neoliberalism
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Foreign domestics movement begins in 1981: right to apply for pr after working in canada for 24 months: the foreign domestic workers movement formed and they were able to win some rights for caregivers. Live-in caregiver program developed in 1992: it recognized care work as a permanent need, that there is a care deficit in. Photo from kwentong bayan: a labour of love: they work with philippina women and other artists to talk about the experiences of issues of live-in caretakers. Part of globalization: means that information and production and economies are connected across borders. Services and production are increasingly outsourced cheaper wages: related to the way labour is spread across the globe and how different economies relate to each other. Old international division of labour integrated developing economies into the world economy as suppliers of natural resources: countries from things like the global north would to go countries from the global south for resource extraction.
