GEN&SEX 50B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wage Labour, Nuclear Family, Commodification
20 Jun 2018
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- Concepts for review:
Open diaspora:
Incorporating the new setting into their orientation and identity
Closed diaspora:
Identify primarily with their place of origin and continue to hold on to these values
Diasporic identities:
Forced migrations:
Poverty, natural disasters, war, oppression (religious, political)
Relocation:
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Global Division of Caring Labor
- Labor migration and work
What is the relationship between migration and work?
Global capitalism needs cheap and expendable labor supply
Slavery and indentured servitude
Seeking to escape poverty
Incentivized by governments
Opportunity (power to choose)
- Women’s labor essential for survival
Cheap labor imported through slavery and immigration
Racial-ethnic minorities build agricultural and industrial base of 19th and early 20th century economy in
U.S.
Migrant fathers and husbands rarely earned/ earn family wage
Migrant women’s labor critical to survival
- Explaining divisions of labor
Patriarchy model (Sexual division of labor)
Men as a class have authority over women
Exercised through the sexual division of labor
Households dependent on market and on wage labor participation in market (women
lose economic role)
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oWomen lose that role when the things that they used to create becomes
commodified
oWomen’s role now is to maintain the household and men go out to earn money
oRise of the cult of domesticity
Creates division of labor- men as laborers in public, women as consumers and
caretakers in family (cult of domesticity)
Internal colonialism model (racial division of labor)
Racial minorities kept weak- exploited as workers
Exercised through segmented labor market, discriminatory barriers, and separate wage scales
Not all families could reply on single wage- many women had to work, but their jobs are
secondary, i.e. low wage, insecure
- Neither model recognizes the specific oppression of women of color
Bring both together to look at how labor is structured along gendered and racial lines
Multiple tiers
Race- and gender stratified labor market (Nakano Glenn)
- What kinds of jobs are migrant women getting?
They face this race- and gender stratified labor market
They get the lowest paid jobs
These jobs are also the most degraded
Agricultural field labor
Servants
Cooks
Waitresses
Laundresses
Seamstresses
Manufacturing jobs
Domestic service
- Women of color and working-class white women never fully removed from production
Always working and contributing to family wage
Never solely domestically defined
Excluded from being defined domestically (however problematic it may be)
Identities as laborers takes precedence over domestic roles
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Document Summary
Incorporating the new setting into their orientation and identity. Identify primarily with their place of origin and continue to hold on to these values. Global capitalism needs cheap and expendable labor supply. Racial-ethnic minorities build agricultural and industrial base of 19 th and early 20th century economy in. Migrant fathers and husbands rarely earned/ earn family wage. Men as a class have authority over women. Creates division of labor- men as laborers in public, women as consumers and caretakers in family (cult of domesticity) Exercised through segmented labor market, discriminatory barriers, and separate wage scales. Not all families could reply on single wage- many women had to work, but their jobs are secondary, i. e. low wage, insecure. Neither model recognizes the specific oppression of women of color. Bring both together to look at how labor is structured along gendered and racial lines. Race- and gender stratified labor market (nakano glenn) They face this race- and gender stratified labor market.
