Domestic Workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23740499 |
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| Authors | Rachel Silvey (0000-0003-4604-7122, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | International Encyclopedia of Geography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0986 |
| OpenAlex | W4230752106 |
| ISBN | 9781118786352 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Domestic workers are the focus of a sizable body of research within geography and in other social science disciplines. Studies of domestics grew initially in the 1990s, alongside the discipline's growing understanding of feminist theory, as well as in response to increasing numbers of domestic workers migrating internationally, particularly since the 1970s. Scholars have explored the persistent devaluation of domestic workers' labor in the global labor market in terms of the material, discursive, gendered, racialized, and ethnicized dynamics shaping this labor niche. They have also attended to the artistic, activist, embodied, and subjective dimensions of domestic workers' experiences. They have found that domestic workers commonly participate in additional employment sectors and that marriage and entertainment migration frequently overlap with domestic workers' migration. In recent years, organizers working on behalf of the rights of domestic workers have celebrated a number of legal and governance advances that are opening up new avenues for research on and with domestic workers.
Devaluation · Domestic work · Economics · Embodied cognition · Political science · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Highly cited | No |
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