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Artículo de periódico

Caring about Care Workers: Organizing in the Female Shadow of Globalization

Fecha

2005

Autores

Shireen Ally

Resumen

Despite being rendered invisible by contemporary mainstream accounts of globalization, & historically, by the mainstream labour movement, reproductive care workers in the female shadow of globalization are claiming visibility through a groundswell of global organizing. In an analysis of the contemporary organizing efforts of migrant domestic workers, the article argues that the recent proliferation of care worker organizing is characterized by a bifurcated structure of representation in which an association model that involves primarily non-union-based labour organizing competes with a union model that seeks to overcome organized labour's historical failure to represent the sector. In this bipolar landscape of migrant domestic worker organizing, the article suggests that effective worker-controlled representation is not always achieved by the mere fact of organization, & that the union-based labour movement would benefit from recognition of the significance of gendered care work under globalization. References. Adapted from the source document.

Journal title

LABOUR Capital and Society/TRAVAIL Capital et Societe

Volumen

38

Número

1-2

Page numbers

184 et s

Conexiones

Palabras clave

Union, labor

Los sectores económicos

Occupations in services - Domestic work y Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations

Tipos de contenido

Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Esferas de la actividad

Ciencias Políticas

Idiomas

Inglés