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Announcements. May 1 st March & Rally – 2pm meet-up @ Civic Center; Closing Rally 5pm @ Chicano Park No office hours today! Fri , 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview
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Announcements • May 1st March & Rally – 2pm meet-up @ Civic Center; Closing Rally 5pm @ Chicano Park • No office hours today! • Fri, 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview • 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due
Formalizing the informal Cleaning Up Master’s House
The Informal Labor of Care • Informal vs formal labor • Taxed and monitored by governmental agencies; subject to regulation and accountability • Domestic work defined by informality at every level: • Hiring practice = social networks & reputations • Pay scales & employee/employer duties • Agencies = formalizing industry for only certain nannies • Terminations, resignations, and severance
MaternalismvsPersonalism • Formal boss-employee relationship vs informal relationship between employer & domestic worker • Complicated by labor performed in private sphere • Determined by differing positions of privilege & power • Maternalism – “a one-way relationship, defined primarily by the employer’s gestures of charity, advice, assistance, and gifts” (207-208) • White women helping out brown women • Personalism – “a two-way relationship, albeit still asymmetrical [that]involves the employer’s recognition of the employee as a particular person” (208) • As necessary improvement to invisibility & dehumanization (201)
Cleaning up Master’s House • Sotelo’s solution upgrading not abolition (210) • Enforce regulations currently on the books concerning wages and hours rather than solely focus on taxes (216) • Strengthen formal employment standards and regulation (241) • Educate public about domestic work (241) • Do not impose previous forms of labor organizing onto domestic workers (227) • YuniMuliyono – a legal victory? • Selective recognition before the law and reaffirmation of white supremacy Can we reform and still dismantle the master’s house at the same time?
Big Questions • How do we pursue extension & recognition of rights while still recognizing the limits of the nation-state? • How do we fight for humane working conditions but still recognize the inhumane logic of capitalism? • How do we build solidarity with the 2/3 world while remembering we have the privileges of the 1/3? Educate yourself about the bill @ http://www.domesticworkers.org/ca-bill-of-rights