Dust and DignityPub Date : 2019-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.003.0006
E. Casanova
{"title":"Like Any Other Job?","authors":"E. Casanova","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores some of the challenges that organizers of domestic workers in Ecuador face. Its discussion of domestic worker organizing touches on the three major themes of this book: social reproduction, informal arrangements that render domestic work invisible, and class relations that degrade and dehumanize workers. Workers' engagement in long hours of paid and unpaid social reproduction makes them difficult to reach and organize. Informal arrangements, and lack of political will and political effectiveness to change these arrangements, combine to make the enforcement of existing laws difficult. Moreover, relationships with the left-leaning state, embedded in traditional assumptions about who constitutes the working class—assumptions that leave out women and informal workers—have been fraught. The chapter then shows how domestic workers and their advocates have been organizing, what strategies they have used to demand the rights of these workers, and what the implications of these strategies are for political action and change.","PeriodicalId":126076,"journal":{"name":"Dust and Dignity","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122400155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dust and DignityPub Date : 2019-09-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501739477-009
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501739477-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501739477-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":126076,"journal":{"name":"Dust and Dignity","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128476187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dust and DignityPub Date : 2019-09-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.003.0005
E. Casanova
{"title":"Pathways Through Poverty","authors":"E. Casanova","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739453.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter traces women's labor trajectories, studying interviews with fifty-two women in four Ecuadorian cities about their work histories, which all include stints of paid domestic work, periods of unemployment, and usually other jobs. The women's accounts explode common assumptions. Domestic employment has not been a stepping stone to more desirable jobs, but neither has it been the only job that these women have done. Their employment in private homes has been disrupted, temporary, sporadic, and anything but stable. Rather than mobility, the chapter found circularity: women cycling in and out of the informal labor market over the course of their lives, making employment decisions that are shaped by economic, health, and family crises. Their engagement in unpaid social reproduction affected both their choice to do paid social reproduction in the first place, and the way they managed that reproductive labor over time.","PeriodicalId":126076,"journal":{"name":"Dust and Dignity","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133145190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dust and DignityPub Date : 2005-11-25DOI: 10.4337/9781845428051.00024
M. Forsgren, Ulf Holm, J. Johanson
{"title":"Appendix: Research Methods","authors":"M. Forsgren, Ulf Holm, J. Johanson","doi":"10.4337/9781845428051.00024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845428051.00024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":126076,"journal":{"name":"Dust and Dignity","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122007165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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