LABR 3Q92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Reproduction, Racialization, Unfree Labour
9 Oct 2016
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Tools used by international institutions like world bank and international monetary fund. Refinance countries in global south and in order to receive refinancing countries had to implement neoliberal policies. These policies pushed women into the labour market. Women are recruited to work in tnc factories because thought to be docile and submissive and therefore less likely to join unions. Need to support professional workers in global north. 1982, organizes and supervises export of maids and nurses. Government have incentives to encourage people to migrate because when they send money to their families it helps the governments economy. Ideologies of race, gender, class, etc. shape labour recruitment and migration. Desire specific workers based on stereotypes of these people. Lorente (2010): filipina supermaids reproduced scripts of servitude and sold skills as. Scripts of servitude show they would be agreeable workers. Labour power commodified as product maid to order which requires styling and emotional labour.
