Jennifer N Fish
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer N Fish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer N |
| FAMILY NAME | Fish |
| SIGNATURE | FISH J N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Care
Premilla Nadasen brings together her extensive work on the history of paid domestic labor, organizing movements, and the welfare state in her most recent book’s comprehensive analysis of capitalism at the heart of the US care economy. Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism places the racial and gender histories of social reproduction in direct conversation with the contemporary US economic landscape, where new scales of profit and exploitation are…
Making History through Policy
Paid household labor has fertilized the development of national economies, while also nourishing the capitalist labor systems that has allowed globalization to thrive. However, this transnational sector has remained historically invisible, devalued, and unprotected from national and international legislative frameworks. In 2010, the International Labor Organization (ILO) finally embraced this challenge through two years of negotiations on the wor…
Gendered Violence
This thematic cluster of essays, titled “Gendered Violence: Continuities and Transformation in the Aftermath of Conflict in Africa,” focuses on the continuities between regimes of violence during organized political conflict and persisting violence against women in the postconflict era of democratic governance. The genesis for this collection evolved out of an international symposium organized by the first author of this introduction, in August 2…
Visual Sociology in the Classroom
How do students ‘see’ globalization? How do they understand visual representations of its political, social and ethical dimensions? This article discusses the use of visual materials as a tool for teaching globalization theory. Images convey specific values and beliefs, frame understandings of global problems, provide access to distant locales and offer a form of resistance. Such media allow students to consider how images may reproduce inherentl…
Domestic Workers Go Global
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
Slaves No More
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…
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Engendering Democracy
This article examines aspects of social change in South Africa through an analysis of paid domestic labour after the 1994 inception of a new democracy. Race, class and gender divisions continue to define this social institution as the ‘last bastion of apartheid’. Sharp power asymmetries between women positioned as either domestic workers or employers present distinctive challenges to the accessibility of gender rights that remain central to South…
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Slaves No More
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…
Engendering Democracy
This article examines aspects of social change in South Africa through an analysis of paid domestic labour after the 1994 inception of a new democracy. Race, class and gender divisions continue to define this social institution as the ‘last bastion of apartheid’. Sharp power asymmetries between women positioned as either domestic workers or employers present distinctive challenges to the accessibility of gender rights that remain central to South…
Visual Sociology in the Classroom
How do students ‘see’ globalization? How do they understand visual representations of its political, social and ethical dimensions? This article discusses the use of visual materials as a tool for teaching globalization theory. Images convey specific values and beliefs, frame understandings of global problems, provide access to distant locales and offer a form of resistance. Such media allow students to consider how images may reproduce inherentl…
Domestic Workers Go Global
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
Making History through Policy
Paid household labor has fertilized the development of national economies, while also nourishing the capitalist labor systems that has allowed globalization to thrive. However, this transnational sector has remained historically invisible, devalued, and unprotected from national and international legislative frameworks. In 2010, the International Labor Organization (ILO) finally embraced this challenge through two years of negotiations on the wor…
Engendering Democracy
This article examines aspects of social change in South Africa through an analysis of paid domestic labour after the 1994 inception of a new democracy. Race, class and gender divisions continue to define this social institution as the ‘last bastion of apartheid’. Sharp power asymmetries between women positioned as either domestic workers or employers present distinctive challenges to the accessibility of gender rights that remain central to South…
Free Adult Internet Web Sites
Gendered Violence
This thematic cluster of essays, titled “Gendered Violence: Continuities and Transformation in the Aftermath of Conflict in Africa,” focuses on the continuities between regimes of violence during organized political conflict and persisting violence against women in the postconflict era of democratic governance. The genesis for this collection evolved out of an international symposium organized by the first author of this introduction, in August 2…
Visual Sociology in the Classroom
How do students ‘see’ globalization? How do they understand visual representations of its political, social and ethical dimensions? This article discusses the use of visual materials as a tool for teaching globalization theory. Images convey specific values and beliefs, frame understandings of global problems, provide access to distant locales and offer a form of resistance. Such media allow students to consider how images may reproduce inherentl…
Domestic Workers Go Global
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
Slaves No More
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…
Making History through Policy
Paid household labor has fertilized the development of national economies, while also nourishing the capitalist labor systems that has allowed globalization to thrive. However, this transnational sector has remained historically invisible, devalued, and unprotected from national and international legislative frameworks. In 2010, the International Labor Organization (ILO) finally embraced this challenge through two years of negotiations on the wor…
Care
Premilla Nadasen brings together her extensive work on the history of paid domestic labor, organizing movements, and the welfare state in her most recent book’s comprehensive analysis of capitalism at the heart of the US care economy. Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism places the racial and gender histories of social reproduction in direct conversation with the contemporary US economic landscape, where new scales of profit and exploitation are…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Convention (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)