Social reproduction as unregulated work

McGrath, Siobhan and DeFilippis, James (2009) Social reproduction as unregulated work. Work, Employment and Society, 23 (1). pp. 66-83. ISSN 0950-0170

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Abstract

In this article, two cases of paid social reproductive labour performed in the home in New York City are examined: subsidized child care and paid domestic work. Particular attention is paid to the organization of the industries and the experiences of employees in those worksites. It is demonstrated that there continues to be a persistent and wilful exclusion of this work from regulation, as well as systematic violations of those regulations which do govern the work, constituting what the authors term 'unregulated work'. It should be noted that the workers paid by the government are not exempt from this finding, but fit very clearly into this larger pattern. This illustrates the problems which arise from the process of transforming domestic spaces, and communities more broadly, into spaces of wage labour in American cities. It further serves as a powerful red assertion of the denial of the value of 'women's work'.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Work, Employment and Society
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/environmentalscience
Subjects:
?? child caredomestic worklabour relationssocial reproductionunregulated workwomen's worklaborenvironmental scienceorganizational behavior and human resource managementeconomics and econometricsaccountingsociology and political science ??
ID Code:
51628
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Deposited On:
28 Nov 2011 14:49
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
15 Jul 2024 12:32