GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Reproduction, Registered Nurse, Domestic Worker
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Ggrb28 lecture 6: healthcare as work (recap of last class) Gender: subjective sense of identity, socially or organized and constructed, social determinants of health. Intersectionality: roots in black feminist thought, describes how structural relations of difference and power work together to distribute people"s life chances. Sexuality: subjective and socially organized experience, identification, fantasy; also a central object of research and social control (reproduction, morality) Filipinas in u. s. nurse exchange programs in 1950s and early 60s: nurses paid better than colleagues in the philippines, but far less than. If neoliberalism in the global south is driving people of leave in search of work, what"s neoliberalism doing in the global north: 1970s onward: neoliberalization of healthcare systems in much of the global north. Hospital privatization (mandate to serve shareholders, not the needs of the public) Outsourcing of work (more private, contract non-union jobs) Overloading of responsibilities (higher bed to nurse ratio)
