WGS160Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Heteronormativity, Synchronicity, Socalled
26 Mar 2016
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Guided reading question: how might we connect last week"s discussion with the conditions of paid domestic work: hochschild, arlie russell. Sex workers in the new economy, edited by arlie russell hochschild and barbara. Life of rowena: a mom from the philippines who migrated to america to work as a nanny because she could not find sufficient work at home, she sends money back home to her children. Reflects the growing trend of importation of care and love from poor countries to rich ones. For some time now, promising and highly trained professionals have been moving from ill-equipped hospitals, impoverished schools, antiquated banks, and other beleaguered workplaces of the third world to better opportunities and higher pay in the first world. As rich nations become richer and poor nations become poorer, this one-way flow of talent and training continuously widens the gap between the two.
