"Good Cooks and Washers": Slave Hiring, Domestic Labor, and the Market in Bourbon County, Kentucky

1997 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith C. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Labor

Postfeminism’s Impact on Gendered labour

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Beverly Maria Francis ◽  
Dr. Cheryl Davis
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Housewives

Since the advent of postfeminist culture in the 1990s, women’s desire has often been described as wanting to return to a domestic, feminine lifestyle in which women are portrayed as “keen to re-embrace the title of housewife and re-experience the joys of a ‘new femininity’” (Genz and Brabon, 2009: 57). In movie and TV programs such as Footballer's Wives (2002-2006), The Real Housewives franchise, and Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), the rebranding of domestic labor as a place of enjoyment and liberty expressed through popular culture rejects feminist worries about tedious, repetitive, and exploitative housework.

Women’s Informal Market Work in Massachusetts, 1875–1920

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Nancy Folbre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Informal Market ◽  
Provision Of Services

Married women’s entrance into the market economy proceeded at a slow but steady pace between 1890 and 1910. That, at least, is the impression given by conventional census measures of the percentage with “gainful occupations,” which practically doubled in both the United States as a whole and in the heavily industrialized state of Massachusetts (see Table 1). This impression is misleading on at least two counts. Declines in self-reporting and enumerator bias may have overstated the increase in married women with gainful occupations. More important, dwindling opportunities for informal market activities, such as industrial homework, provision of services to boarders, and participation in a family farm or enterprise, may have countervailed increases in formal market participation. In Massachusetts, at least, married women’s specialization in non-market domestic labor probably increased.

Flexible Work and Housework: Work and Family Constraints on Women's Domestic Labor

Social Forces ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1103-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Silver ◽  
F. Goldscheider
Keyword(s):  
Work And Family ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Flexible Work

scholarly journals Género, trabajo doméstico y extradoméstico en México. Una estimación del valor económico del trabajo doméstico / Gender, Domestic and Extra-Domestic Labor in Mexico. An Estimate of the Economic Value of Domestic Labor

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Pedrero Nieto
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Marginal Contribution ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
International Context ◽  
Continuous Review ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Sobre Todo ◽  
Made In

La discusión sobre la importancia del trabajo doméstico no remunerado tiene ya varios decenios, así como sus efectos sobre la participación en el trabajo extradoméstico, particularmente porque frena a las mujeres para realizar actividades destinadas al mercado. Sin embargo, fue apenas en la última década cuando en el contexto internacional comenzaron a realizarse esfuerzos sistemáticos para hacer visible y medir el trabajo doméstico y registrarlo en las estadísticas oficiales. Las fronteras entre lo que se considera doméstico y extradoméstico no han sido estáticas, lo cual obliga a hacer una revisión conceptual permanente y a diseñar metodologías que permitan cuantificar la valoración económica del trabajo doméstico. En este artículo se emprende, primero, un recorrido conceptual, para finalizar con la presentación de algunos resultados obtenidos para México por la Encuesta Nacional sobre Uso del Tiempo de 2002. Se muestra la participación diferencial de hombres y mujeres en los dos tipos de trabajo, y se destaca sobre todo las discrepancias en el tiempo dedicado al trabajo doméstico por los hombres y por las mujeres. Finalmente se presenta un ejercicio de medición para demostrar que no se trata de una contribución marginal, pues su valor supera al de varios sectores económicos. AbstractDiscussion of the importance of unpaid domestic labor, as well as its effects on participation in extra-domestic labor, particularly the way it discourages women from undertaking activities aimed at the market, dates back several decades. It was not until the last decade, however, that systematic efforts began to be made in the international context to make domestic labor visible and measure it in official statistics. The borders between the domestic and the extra-domestic have not been static, which calls for a continuous review of the concepts used together with the search for methodologies to enable one to assess the economic value of domestic labor. This article begins with a conceptual review and ends with the presentation of some of the results obtained for Mexico in the 2002 National Survey on Time Use. The survey reveals men and women’s varying degrees of participation in the two types of work, highlighting the differences in the amount of time spent on domestic labor. The article ends with a measurement exercise to show that domestic labor is by no means a marginal contribution, since its value exceeds that of several economic sectors.

scholarly journals Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance and/as (Art) Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Petrossiants
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Political Project

Considering the literature on feminist militancy and “domestic labor” of the late 1960s and early 70s from the perspective of Western visual culture, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles is undoubtedly a central figure. Surprisingly, however, her works have rarely been read through the lens of the international Wages for Housework movement. This essay proposes to read Ukeles’ cultural activism and work through the writing and political organizing of Silvia Federici, who also distanced herself from previously dominant and at times sectarian feminisms to articulate a pointedly (post-)autonomist feminism as a political project. The author is trying to grasp and describe the truly radical and imperative position that Ukeles activated, and continues to “maintain.”

scholarly journals Where is Italian domestic labor law moving toward

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Barbara Grandi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Law ◽  
Domestic Labor

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Domestic Labor, Attitudes, and Women’s Marital Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study in Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (16) ◽  
pp. 3931-3955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ka-Lok Cheung ◽  
Erin Hye-Won Kim
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Family Attitudes ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines how gender and family attitudes moderate the relationship between domestic labor and marital satisfaction in Korea, where the heavy and unequal burden of domestic labor on women intersects with traditional familism and gender ideology. We analyze panel data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families ( n = 11,488). Our individual fixed-effect regressions reveal that women’s time spent on domestic labor is negatively associated with the marital satisfaction of younger wives (in their 20s and 30s) when they do not hold traditional family attitudes. However, younger women’s satisfaction is positively associated with their husbands’ share of domestic labor regardless of the women’s gender-role attitudes. For older women (in their 40s or older), we find no evidence for either interaction effect. With the continued erosion of traditional familism in Korea, the burden of domestic labor may become more problematic for younger women’s marriages.

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