WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Intersectionality, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Male Privilege
17 Dec 2015
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Caring labour, the work of looking after the physical, psychological, emotional and the developmental needs of one or more other people. Nanny chain, intersectionality, commodification, invisibility/hypervisibility, live-in caregiver program. 1980s onward, growing interest in paid domestic work. Implied: relation between working women and working domestics. Relies heavily on immigrant labour - global south - example. Philippines, caribbean, eastern europe, india, thailand, south east. Nanny chain - a set of global connections that are based on caring labour that cross geographical boundaries - Other kinds of relationships and inequalities between employers and employees. Class, race, nationality - how these come together in the making of domestic work and the conditions who are involved in this sector as both employers and employees. Acknowledges that every person exists in the framework of multiple identities. Highlights the ways in which there is simultaneous interaction of discrimination that arise from these multiple identities (verma, 2003)
