...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; Rachel Silvey Domestic workers comprise the largest group of female migrant workers today, and they are among the most precarious workers internationally. This article explores the aspects of the organization of domestic work that contribute to keeping it an insecure...

... is therefore not simply a horizontal displacement but a way to suture affects onto her body that will be debarked later for her employers. A work permit scheme recently introduced for migrant domestic workers in Turkey has been built on the governance of migrant workers as providers of affective labor in all...

...Carlotta Benvegnù; Nelli Kampouri Outside of the literature focusing on the platformization of specific “informal” feminized and racialized sectors, especially care and domestic work, in which reproductive labor has been traditionally carried out, there is a dearth of research on platforms from...

... transformation, seemed to regard the defense of the family wage and domestic privacy as their only recourse. The relative absence in Your SOFFA Voice of talk of queer and trans, or butch-femme solidarity through sex work, cross-community bar culture, domestic work, or low-paid jobs means that other...

..., such as interiority, privacy, aestheticism, and sentiment, the essay makes it possible to think about the domestic attachments and longings of individuals and couples outside the heterosexual norm. The examples include novels by George Moore, Eliza Linton, and Rhoda Broughton; the anonymous pornographic work Teleny...

... historical moment is rendered suspect in Indo-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's work; instead, in her death-ly preoccupation with the realm of the intimate and the domestic, she offers an unspeakably private contradistinction to public forms and forums of clamorous mourning. I understand Lahiri's work as first...

... workers, who endure some of the harshest working conditions in the current global employment economy. Public agencies almost never regulate the house cleaning, home renovation, yardwork, child and elder care, and moving jobs performed by legions of migrant day laborers and domestic workers...

... in this country were domestic servants, and in the South this was true well into the twentieth century. These women were among the few Ameri­ cans who crossed class lines to live on terms of some intimacy with the ruling group. Poor women, immigrant women, black women had to choose between factory work...

... century. These women were among the few Ameri­ cans who crossed class lines to live on terms of some intimacy with the ruling group. Poor women, immigrant women, black women had to choose between factory work and domestic work, and to decide which was frying pan and which was fire. The availability...

..., elements of domestic work have often not been visible as productive or even as labor to mainstream political economic labor analysis, nor to philosophies of labor that privilege a liberal autonomous individual as the subject of capitalist labor. As a result, domestic work and reproductive work in general...

... been to endorse an expanded and politically in’ected notion of who belongs to the “working class,” such that the “composition” of this class “is no longer lim- ited to wage workers but can also include those necessary to its existence and organization, like the unemployed, domestic workers...

... is that with the creation of popular kitchens (come- dores populares), reproductive work ceased to be a purely domestic activity; it was socialized, it went into the streets, and thereby acquired a political dimension. Even sewing groups became moments of political resistance, with the creation of the arpilleras,7 which...

... profitable; (22) rationalization of domestic work under state auspices; (23) govern­ ment support for nonprofit production or socialization where private enterprise entails abuses or monopoly; (24) cartel agreements and similar price combines to be made public, open account to be given of the relation...

..., on the order of the master, must rise at dawn for domestic service, and were held answerable for all property in their care. All losses of work through illness or through no fault of the master must be reduced from wages, quiet must be kept in servant s quarters, lights put out at seasonable hours...

... the home to collective and commercial ser- vices), and Cristina Morini the domestication of work, including the process of the house and private space becoming productive space.3 The unraveling of the Fordist sexual contract was posited to be evi- denced in all manner of events, but most significant among...

... state.22 Neoliberalism may have signaled the demise of the family wage and the Keynesian sexual contract, with its sharp divisions of labor between the formal productive sphere and the reproductive sphere of unpaid domestic work,23 but in its place it has established its own vision of the familial...

... that: work. Meanwhile, Caleb lurks in the background of these nar- ratives, living across the alley from James and Jamie and secretly spectating by way of telescope on their domestic life and following them as they go about their lives in the city (in scenes eliminated from the feature release...

... contemporary markets in sexual labor and the pro- liferation of other forms of service work, focusing especially on the blurred lines between public/market and private/domestic spaces that attend global deindustrialization. For Maya Andrea Gonzalez and Cassandra Troyan (2016: n.p similarly, sex work...

... that are always missing.1 Still, people also seem to feel at home in the topic as long as they do not have to think too hard about what or where it is. A frequent reaction to my saying that I am working on domestic tragedy is well, I m living it or I was raised in it, and people even react to the The South...

... arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. (297) Eliot’s analogy works on the memory of the reader, calling on familiar pat- terns of skeptical thought in relation to an optical illusion that takes readers back into their own domestic space. The materiality of a simple...