GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Democracy, Consumerism, Washing Machine
5 Sep 2020
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Domestic labour as maintaining a household (2001) - luxton & corman p. 151-184. Purpose: explore the home as a site of work and oppression for women. The basic organization of domestic labour in wage earning households has not changed since early 20th century. As an informal unpaid work process, domestic labour has no standards regulated or enforced by an employer. The work itself is socially marginalized and low status as a result; the people who do it get little recognition for their work. Aspects of it such as cooking or childcare are familiar, but much of its social contribution is unnamed and unacknowledged (156) Domestic labour is tied to affirmations of relationships. Because domestic labour is privatized and organized through individual households, it is difficult for individuals or individual households to intervene in its social organization. Paid employees can organize into unions to challenge the conditions of their workplace.
