E Boris
Biographic Data
| ID | 13652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Boris |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Boris |
| SIGNATURE | BORIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6769-4447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 142 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 142 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere, but So Is Care
Every year they recede: the glaciers that once carved the mountains of the French Alps now stand as a prime exhibit of global warming. I contemplate the shrinking patch of snow and ice as another danger zone, an inanimate but living reminder of the age of destruction, what the earth would call our energy-consuming AI resource-grabbing economy where the rich get more and most of us make do, inhaling the toxic fumes of so-called progress. But some …
‘Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home.’ Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019
The binary productive and reproductive labor –what the International Labour Organization (ILO) has called work and family responsibilities– cordoned off care from employment. Until the 2000s, paid care work mostly stood outside of ILO deliberations, while unpaid family care became a concern as a means to enhance labor force participation and thus reinforce the valuing of care as a special kind of activity. This analysis traces the construction of…
Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
Emma Goldman's 'the traffic in women' revisited: Sex Work, Sweatshops, and Discourses of Slavery
This article reconsiders Emma Goldman's essay, ‘The Traffic in Women', interrogating the centrality of race in gendered understandings of women's work. In constructing a genealogy of sex work, sweatshops, and discourses of slavery, it turns to domestic work as the occupation, dominated by Black women, but missing from the terms ‘white slavery' and ‘wage slavery’ at the time when the United States industrialized. The afterlife of slavery impacted …
La importancia de la unidad doméstica: Hacia una historia social del capitalismo con perspectiva de género
This essay takes up the project of engendering capitalism by turning to the household. It situates a gendered analysis of capitalism within recent histories of capitalism, feminist analyses of social reproduction, histories of family and industrialism, histories of sexuality, and histories of women's labor. It argues that to analyze capitalism from a household perspective clarifies three core elements of capitalist political economy. First, capit…
Understanding Gender Disparities in Caregiving, Stress, and Perceptions of Institutional Support among Faculty during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The loss of the care infrastructure that occurred during the COVID-19 crisis exposed society’s continued reliance on women and mothers as default caregivers. But less is known about how this crisis produced gendered mental health outcomes, especially in occupations characterized by intensive work cultures such as academia. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative responses from a May 2021 campus-wide survey of faculty at a large research universit…
Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care
Engendering carcerality: An introduction
Reflecting the carceral turn in scholarship, this introduction to a special issue on engendering carcerality explores the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral in its various forms over time and space. It considers the multiple meanings and spaces of imprisonment, surveillance, and confinement; incarceration of mothers; confinement of sex workers; imprisoning of political prisoners, and reforming of youths, taking account of…
Franca Iacovetta. Before Official Multiculturalism: Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s–1970s
Sfndhe: Feminist Scholars Demand Higher Education for All
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education (SFNDHE) emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate and help drive a coordinated response across the country and its territories to the assaults on the funding of higher education, the precariousness of academic labor, and the burden on students. This essay describes its founding, programs, and ongoing fight to obtain federal support for free college combined with fair labor standards for staff…
Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On
As historian John Wood Sweet recounts, on October 14, 1793, hundreds of men from New York City's “middling and lower ranks” violently dismantled the bawdy house of Mother Carey. Her perjured testimony had offered evidence for gentleman jurors to acquit a rake charged with raping the stepdaughter of a master harbor pilot, a skilled artisan who believed with the other rioters “that street protests were a legitimate, necessary way to maintain a free…
A Matter of Moral Justice: Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice
In writing history, beginnings and endings matter. “I had originally intended to conclude this book on a triumphant note with the success of the union campaign in 1937 and with subsequent achievement of industry-wide agreements that secured higher wages, shorter hours, paid vacation and sick days, arbitration machinery to mediate workplace grievances and a closed shop,” confessed Jenny Carson (6). By moving the time frame forward, she instead off…
Household Matters: Engendering the Social History of Capitalism
This essay takes up the project of engendering capitalism by turning to the household. It situates a gendered analysis of capitalism within recent histories of capitalism, feminist analyses of social reproduction, histories of family and industrialism, histories of sexuality, and histories of women's labor. It argues that to analyze capitalism from a household perspective clarifies three core elements of capitalist political economy. First, capit…
Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017
Journal Article Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017 Get access Borrowing from Our Foremothers: Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017. By Amy Helene Forss. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xvi, 287 pp. $60.00.) Eileen Boris Eileen Boris University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California Search for other works by this author …
Forum Introduction: Racialized Reproduction and Bodies That Matter
What Do Organizations and Clinicians of Status Owe Their Patients’ Home Health Aides
This commentary on a case offers a historical perspective on how home health work became separate from other sites and means of professional caregiving, exacerbating poor continuity of care in the US health care system. Categorizing home health work as domestic work continues to racialize and marginalize workers. Poor public policy responding to market pressures to keep home health work cheap also perpetuates home health workers' classification a…
For the Many: A Review Dossier
This introduction to the review dossier on Dorothy Sue Cobble, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality , introduces the major themes of the work in light of Cobble's earlier interventions in gendering labor history and focus on laborite activist women here called “full rights feminists”. It asks the contributors to expand on and decenter the transnational and global influence of Cobble's feminists and their v…
The California battle for health and safety for domestic workers
This article reflects on the legislative campaign of the California Domestic Worker Coalition, including Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, to end the exclusion of household workers (nannies, personal attendants and cleaners) from occupational health-and-safety requirements. It discusses the strategies and arguments deployed, and analyses the rationale of the governor, who vetoed the bill in 2020 in the name of the home as a private sp…
From Sexual Harassment to Gender Violence at Work: The ILO's Road to Convention #190
This article considers the political, social, and institutional forces behind the ILO's “Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190).” It traces the competing terms—worker protection, women's equality, and human rights—by which sexual harassment emerged as a proper subject for international action and how violence became the most acceptable framework for redress. With the plight of domestic workers dramatizing the issue, it took concerted …
Career & Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity
If you consider yourself a woman and want equal pay, it is better to be a pharmacist than a lawyer. To make partner, the private law firm rewards on-call availability for clients who demand specific attorneys; billing structures up the per-hour rate when an associate clocks more hours, while penalizing part-time and interrupted employment. A decade from their degree, women lawyers earn only seventy-eight cents to the dollar received by their male…
Never Obsolete: Private Household Workers and the Transaction of Domestic Work
Faced with the most up to date washing machine, the undocumented Rosa, newly arrived from Guatemala to Los Angeles, does what many resourceful Mayan women would: She handwashes clothes and lays them on the lawn to dry. 1 Played for comic relief in the 1983 movie El Norte , this confrontation of the domestic worker with the machine represents how, presumably in the face of dirty wars in Latin America and rising labor force participation of mothers…
History on trial: The Abortion Wars
Since 1973, the abortion debate in the United States has depended on contested understandings of the nation’s history. More than ever, history went on trial in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the 2022 Supreme Court case that struck down Roe v. Wade, the decision which began to legalize abortion. After situating my own history, I explore the tension between legal advocacy and historical knowledge making, highlighting the originalism…
Since the Boom: Continuity and Change in the Western Industrialized World after 1970
Marked by a period of massive structural change, the 1970s in Europe saw the collapse of traditional manufacturing. The essays in this collection question aspects of the narrative of decline and radical transformation
Making Peace, Making Feminism
They journeyed to Paris and met in Zurich as “mothers of the world,” seeking to shape the peace following the carnage of World War One (157). With gratitude and grace, organized Western women petitioned and entreated Allied diplomats for a place in international as well as national governance. Inspired by the Wilsonian promise of democracy, these mostly middle-aged, white, and well-off activists demanded self-determination for individuals and not…
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
This extensively researched and sophisticated study breaks through conventional origin stories of neoliberalism. Before the Washington Consensus of the late 1980s and 1990s, which laid out the terms through which poor countries might receive international relief, there was Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation and its adviser, David Lilienthal, the New Dealer turned businessman, who championed democracy through decentralization of investment and st…
Organizing Home Care: Low-Waged Workers in the Welfare State
Unionization of home care has depended on the state location of the occupation. Government social policies and funding created home care, shaping the structure of the industry and the conditions of work. The welfare nexus, linking old age, disability, health, and welfare policies, however, also transformed care hidden in the home into a public service. Through case studies of California and Oregon, leaders in deinstitutionalizing care of the elde…
The Racialized Gendered State: Constructions of Citizenship in the United States
Journal Article The Racialized Gendered State: Constructions of Citizenship in the United States Get access EILEEN BORIS EILEEN BORIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 1995, Pages 160-180, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/2.2.160 Published: 01 July 1995
Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home
You Wouldn't Want One of 'Em Dancing With Your Wife: Racialized Bodies on the Job in World War II
You Wouldn’t Want One of ‘Em Dancing With Your Wife”: Racialized Bodies on the Job in World War II Eileen Boris (bio) There were a lot of women workers on board, mostly white. Whenever I passed the white women looked at me, some curiously, some coyly, some with open hostility. Some just stared with blank hard eyes. Few ever moved aside to let me pass. . . . Now and then some of the young white women gave me an opening to make a pass, but I’d neve…
On the Importance of Naming: Gender, Race, and the Writing of Policy History
Twenty years ago, just as the study of policy was emerging out of the morass of political history, historians of women rediscovered the state. What I will name the policy turn challenged a kind of intellectual separate sphere in which women's history addressed home, family, and intimate life and left to other historians everything else. The policy turn shifted attention from Carroll Smith Rosenberg's “Female World of Love and Ritual” without losi…
Slaves No More: Making Global Labor Standards for Domestic Workers
Feminist Studies 40, no. 2. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 411 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish “Slaves No More”: Making Global Labor Standards for Domestic Workers On June 16, 2011, household workers worldwide won the first international set of standards that acknowledged their right to decent work. The International Labor Organization (ILO) approved Convention 189, a treaty-like document that extends labor protections around wages, hours, an…
Complicating Categories: An Introduction
This 1999 Supplement of the International Review of Social History focuses on complicating central concepts in the understanding of economic and social history: class, gender, race and ethnicity. In concentrating on industrial workers, their politics, and institutions, labor and working-class history had tended to ignore gender, race, and ethnicity as discursive and material forces. It discussed the woman or black or immigrant worker as a subset …
Reproduction as production: Thinking with the ILO to move beyond dichotomy
Taking off from the ILO's initiative on carework, this article reconsiders the Marxist dichotomy between productive and reproductive labor and asks what work has care performed within global capitalism? As a theoretical intervention, it aligns itself with those who see reproduction as productive, making people and subsequently the labor power necessary for other forms of production to occur. As a historical intervention, it rethinks literature on…
Homework and Women's Rights: The Case of the Vermont Knitters, 1980-1985
Regulating Industrial Homework: "The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood
Journal Article Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood" Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris visiting assistant professor of history Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 745–763, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888502 Published: 01 March 1985
The Selfless and the Helpless: Maternalist Origins of the U.S. Welfare State
Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism, and Class at Work
Homeworking and Women's Employment Trends Finding out about Homeworking Racialized Divisions in Homework The Coventry Sample Advantages and Disadvantages of Homework Information and Communication Technology Homeworking The Future for Homework
The Home as a Workplace: Deconstructing Dichotomies
The ideological split between home and work obscures the ways that each realm shapes the other. Contemporary political debate over the wage-earning mother maintains an opposition between "mother" and "worker". This division reflects a pervasive intellectual impasse pervading the organization of knowledge, our very scholarship, as well as legal rules and governmental regulations. History -including women's history and labor history -is no exceptio…
Introduction: Historicizing Domestic Workers' Resistance and Organizing
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Mothers, household managers, and productive workers: The International Labor Organization and Women in Development
Focused on the International Labor Organization (ILO), this article historicizes the concept of ‘women in developing countries’ by looking at its own development through use by women researchers and others within the ILO context. It traces the construction of ‘women in developing countries’ as a distinct category of woman worker. In doing so, it advances the understanding of the very terms of policy that we take for granted, contextualizing a cat…
Domestic Workers Go Global: The Birth of the International Domestic Workers Federation
The article offers information on the International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF). IDWF demands that the essential value of household labor or social reproduction needs to be recognized. Like other labor federations, IDWF helps national groups to encourage the implementation of local standards, pensions and health care
The Fate of Care Worker Unionism and the Promise of Domestic Worker Organizing: An Update
Feminist Studies 40, no. 2. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 473 Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein The Fate of Care Worker Unionism and the Promise of Domestic Worker Organizing: An Update During initial deliberations at the International Labor Conference held by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2010, observers and staff burst into tears and then into applause when the US delegate supported Convention 189: Decent Work for Domestic Work…
Desirable Dress: Rosies, Sky Girls, and the Politics of Appearance
Desirable dress on the job, whether pants, sweaters, or mini-skirted uniforms, contains symbolic meaning, but whose sexual subjectivity it expresses is not always clear. Appearance may be a proxy for other forms of contestation or just be a conveyer of pleasure that makes work just a little more humane. This essay rethinks two cases where issues of self-fashioning, appearance, sexuality, employer strictures, and state policy intertwined: the shop…
Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965
Journal Article Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930–1965. By Ruth Feldstein. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. xii, 241 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8014-3414-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-8438-3.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, De…
Scholarship and Activism: The Case of Welfare Justice
Understanding Gender Disparities in Caregiving, Stress, and Perceptions of Institutional Support among Faculty during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The loss of the care infrastructure that occurred during the COVID-19 crisis exposed society’s continued reliance on women and mothers as default caregivers. But less is known about how this crisis produced gendered mental health outcomes, especially in occupations characterized by intensive work cultures such as academia. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative responses from a May 2021 campus-wide survey of faculty at a large research universit…
Never Obsolete: Private Household Workers and the Transaction of Domestic Work
Faced with the most up to date washing machine, the undocumented Rosa, newly arrived from Guatemala to Los Angeles, does what many resourceful Mayan women would: She handwashes clothes and lays them on the lawn to dry. 1 Played for comic relief in the 1983 movie El Norte , this confrontation of the domestic worker with the machine represents how, presumably in the face of dirty wars in Latin America and rising labor force participation of mothers…
Gender troubles, Redux
Thirty years ago, women's history written from a feminist standpoint was the revolutionary force, challenging androcentric thought and definitions of experience. Today, gender has become the more threatening moniker to those who would maintain patriarchal power and suppress knowledge. While not new, recent attacks on ‘gender ideology’ by conservative, often labeled right-wing governments, threaten the continuation of degree programs, as in Hungar…
Feminist Currents
Politicizing Women’s History, Engendering Policy History
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The Chicago Women's Labor History Project
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Social Reproduction and the Schools: Educational Housekeeping
Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago . Lionel Lambourne
Regulating Industrial Homework: "The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood
Journal Article Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood" Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris visiting assistant professor of history Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 745–763, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888502 Published: 01 March 1985
The Colonial Revival in America
Journal Article The Colonial Revival in America. Ed. Alan Axelrod. (New York: Norton, 1985. xi + 377 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 930–931, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908899 Published: 01 March 1986
Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts . Peter Stansky C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist . Alan Crawford
The Arts and Crafts Movement: Handmade Socialism or Elite Consumerism
Arts and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America
Homework and Women's Rights: The Case of the Vermont Knitters, 1980-1985
Art and Labor. Ruskin, Morris and the Craftman Ideal in America
Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America
Women, Politics, and Feminism
Language Lost, Voices Found: The Making of the Female Working Class in New York City, 1789-1925
Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home
Tenement homework on Army uniforms: The gendering of industrial democracy during World War I
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEileen BorisThis paper was presented to the Conference on North American Labor During World War I, George Meany Center, Sept. 22, 1989. It was written while on fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I would like to thank David Montgomery, Melvyn Dubofsky, and Nelson Lichtenstein for comments
Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home
Journal Article Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home. Ed. by Eileen Boris and Cynthia R. Daniels. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xii + 299 pp. Cloth, $32.50; paper, $12.95.) Get access Winifred D. Wandersee Winifred D. Wandersee Hartwick College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 388–389, https:…
Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform
From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890-1925
Research Article| May 01 1991 From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890–1925 Eileen Boris Eileen Boris Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1991-50-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eileen Boris; From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890–1925. Radical History Review 1…
Homework: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home
The Settlement Movement Revisited: Social Control with a Conscience
Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer
Journal Article Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer. By Diane Kirkby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxvi + 254 pp. $44.50, ISBN 0-521-39102-4.) Get access Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice. The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer. By Kirkby Diane. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxvi + 254 pp. $44.50, ISBN 0-521-39102-4.) Eileen Boris Eileen Boris H…
Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930
Journal Article Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830–1930. By Kathleen D. McCarthy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. xviii + 324 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-55583-6.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris Howard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1604–1605, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080261 Published: 01 March 19…
Mothers Who Must Earn: Dilemmas of Homework
The Rise of the Therapeutic State
Journal Article The Rise of the Therapeutic State. by Andrew J. Polsky. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. x, 287 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-69107878-5.) Get access Eileen Boris Eileen Boris Howard University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 734–735, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081309 Published: 01 September 1994
The Home as a Workplace: Deconstructing Dichotomies
The ideological split between home and work obscures the ways that each realm shapes the other. Contemporary political debate over the wage-earning mother maintains an opposition between "mother" and "worker". This division reflects a pervasive intellectual impasse pervading the organization of knowledge, our very scholarship, as well as legal rules and governmental regulations. History -including women's history and labor history -is no exceptio…
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