SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Wage Labour, Unemployment Benefits
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter seventeen: the politics of family and immigration in the subordination of. There has been a very significant increase in women"s participation in the labour force since the 1960s: the change has been most dramatic for women with children. As a result of the squeeze on working parents from pressures in the public and private spheres, there are signs that employment of domestic servants, a rare practice since the. While the demand for domestic workers rises, the conditions of domestic service in general and live-in service in particular are so undesirable that it is very difficult to find. The geographic, economic, social, and ideological separation of the public work sphere from the home, which developed with socialized commodity production under capitalism, has lead to a decline in the status of domestic labour. Domestic labour is performed in private, and perhaps is more isolated than ever before.
