WGS250H5 Chapter Notes -Domestica
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Domestic employees wish to establish firm boundaries around their work hours which employers desire to remain more elastic. Employer flexibility clearly depends on round-the-clock domestic service. Employer"s schedules and needs mandate the services provided by live-in domestic labour. Nannies believe that many of their employers are bad parents- don"t provide child attention, care, sense of attachment **bad parenting** (compare to black mothers); bad mothers, bad parents, bad employers. Parents feel exhausted when they come home from work and they want their money"s worth. Enforced isolation as a means of controlling live-in domestic workers. Racial inequality increases likelihood that employers will require the same employee both to care for children and taken care of housekeeping duties. Class, but more often race, nationality, and immigration status influence negotiations to redefine the job, more readily enabling employees with relative privilege in one or more of theses areas to circumscribe their job tasks.
