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Article: Mexican immigrant women and the new domestic labor
- Article from:
- Human Organization
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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CopyrightCopyright Society of Applied Anthropology Winter 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Since the 1970s global and national economic processes have reshaped the organization of production and of social reproduction. As part of the change in the organization of social reproduction, there is an increased demand for domestic workers. The focus of this article is on Mexican immigrant women who fulfill that demand and who form part of a "new" domestic labor in Santa Barbara, California. Two themes emerge: at the local level the domestic labor market is more heterogeneous than previously described, consisting of a multiplicity of forms. The domestic labor market is, in turn, polarized. Two case studies-one of a "labor contractor" and the other of an "elderly care ...