She Was a Member of the Family
Ethel Phillips, Domestic Labor, and Employer Perceptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4520152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kellie Carter Jackson (0009-0005-7160-5001, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 160-173 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2017.0053 |
| OpenAlex | W2766312518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
My maternal grandmother, Ethel Phillips, labored for over fifty-nine years as a domestic servant. She worked in her longest capacity as a housekeeper for three generations of the Clark family in Dearborn, Michigan from 1955 to 1998. By conducting interviews with Ethel's daughters, family members, and past employers, I track the complicated relationships around what it means to live and love within the racial and social hierarchy of domestic service. I argue that the language used to describe affection for domestic servants by their employers obscures the labor conditions that accompany their work and worth in a world of unprotected labor
Affection · Domestic work · Economics · Economy · Hierarchy · Labour economics · Perception · Political science · Servant · Sociology · Wage · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |