The International Market for Female Labour and Individual Deskilling
West Indian Women Workers in Toronto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5857490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A B Bakan (0000-0003-4794-4693) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 24 |
| Pages | 69-85 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0826-3663 • E-ISSN: 2333-1461 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08263663.1987.10816594 |
| OpenAlex | W2070918649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This article presents the experiences of five West Indian women immigrant workers living in Toronto in 1985 who were employed at the time in distinct skill categories ranging from the live-in domestic to the registered nurse. The case studies were selected from a larger survey (forty interviews in all, eight in each of five skill categories, where there were relatively high concentrations of West Indian women employees). The aim of the study was to identify the combination of skills and expectations with which these women left their home countries, and to relate these to the actual experiences they had upon arrival to Canada.These particular five stories were selected because they display a consistent pattern of “individual deskilling” as a direct result of the immigration process. It is argued that the deskilling process occurs not merely as a feature of the general secular tendencies of the process of capital accumulation on a global scale, but also as a direct effect of the individual's experiences in attempting to move from an underdeveloped region of the world to an advanced one. In this process the impact of discriminatory patterns of inequality based on class, gender, racial and national characteristics play a determinant role.A conceptual framework which integrates these factors is suggested as a means to interpret the experiences of the women selected from the study which display the pattern of individual deskilling
Demographic economics · Deskilling · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Inequality · Labour economics · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Gender Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 1997 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |