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Announcements. Final Project Prep: Tues, 4/30 – last day to join CARE Project Fri, 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Announcements• Final Project Prep:
• Tues, 4/30 – last day to join CARE Project
• Fri, 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview
• May 1st March & Rally – 2pm meet-up @ Civic Center; Closing Rally 5pm @ Chicano Park
• 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due
DOMÉSTICADomestic Work in So Cal’s Global City
public/private & global/local• New world domestic order
• Novus ordo seclorum• Global cities = survival circuits
+ invisible domestic labor• Who performs reproductive
labor and why?• Naturalized by gender & race• Home as site of intimacy &
labor• Transnational motherhood
• “To be a good mother, I had to leave my children”
So Cal Survival Circuits• Los Angeles as global city
• Deindustrialization = growing gap between rich and poor
• Economic center of Pacific Rim = growing service economy
• Pre-existing circuits of imperialism + Bracero Program + MX economic crises feminization of Mexican labor
• Civil War + Military Insurrections increased Central American immigration
La Doméstica• Live-in nanny/housekeeper
• Lack of boundaries, lowest wages• Most exploitative of newest
immigrants – “the bridging occupation”
• Food & dehumanization (Sotelo 35)• Live-out nanny/housekeeper
• Clearer boundaries, relatively higher pay
• Possibility for family life• Housecleaner
• Higher hourly wages, shorter work week, flexibility
• Constant cultivation of network & route of casas
Informal Labor• Informal vs formal labor
• Taxed and monitored by governmental agencies; subject to regulation and accountability
• Informality of hiring practice social networks, references and reputations
• lack of official pay standardization• Decrease of wages with longer work tenure
(83)• Withholding of information between
employers (86)• lack of clarification of worker’s duties
and employer responsibilities• Agencies = formalizing the informal for certain nannies (103)
• Lack of clear etiquette for termination = blow ups & white lies