My Profession Chose Me
Precarity, Pragmatism, and Professionalism in Caribbean and West African Immigrant Domestic Workers' Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5785471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alana Lee Glaser (0000-0003-2389-1347, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-16 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | North American Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1539-2546 • E-ISSN: 1556-4819 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/nad.12053 |
| OpenAlex | W2616160486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
Extensive literature on care work or domestic work - childcare, eldercare, and housecleaning - in the United States and internationally has highlighted how the sector's affective aspects, e.g., intimacy, personalism, and fictive kin relationships, extract "surplus emotional labor" (Hochschild 1983) from women workers, who, in turn, often justify their caregiving labor through expressions of sentiment and kin obligation. In this article, I draw on three women's narrative framings of their domestic work jobs to argue that immigrant women in New York City emphasize structural, practical, and contextual elements of their domestic/caregiving labor, challenging constructions of care sector labor as evidence of innate caring aptitudes, womanly duty, or moral service. These characterizations have direct labor policy implications for paid care work - as evidenced in recent reforms. They also provide a theoretical basis for broader redistributive politics linking paid and unpaid caregiving labor
Care work · Elder care · Emotional labor · Pragmatism · Precarious work · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Care Work
Nature, culture, and gender
Caribbean New York
Caregiving
Frame analysis
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
Intimate Labors
The Caring Self
The Managed Heart
The New Imperialism
Raising Brooklyn
Islands in the City
The domestic balance of power
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Global Cinderellas
Women, Culture and Society
Male and Female
The Moral Economy of Domestic and Care Labour
Emerging Theories of Care Work
The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism
The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity
Frontline Activists
Willing to Work
Senses of care
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2018 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |