WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Commodification, Intersectionality, International Labour Organization
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80"s onward there was an increasing interest in paid domestic work. Women were recruited from overseas, there were programs instituted, involves crossing. At first, most women were white and british nannies and governesses, then it moved to. In 2002, 3648 of the domestic workers that came to canada were philippine. We need to look at wage and power relations in the household. Women are the worker and the employer, it is representative of difference and sameness simultaneously. Every person exists in the framework of multiple identities. Simultaneous interaction of discrimination that arises from the multiple identities. Rigoberta menchu: wrote a book showing how to use one experiences to look at discrimination. You cannot separate any facets of identity from a person when looking at the discrimination they face. Slavery, household duties performed by a slave brought overseas to the americas (including.
