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Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America.
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This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 158 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Service (business).read more
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From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor
TL;DR: In this paper, a study on African American, Latina, Asian American, and Native American women reveals the complex interaction of race and gender oppression in their lives, revealing the inadequacy of additive models that treat gender and race as separate and discrete systems of hierarchy (Collins 1986; King 1988; Brown 1989).
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Social Networks, Gender, and Immigrant Incorporation: Resources and Constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a dynamic and variable portrayal of networks to demonstrate how they gradually assume different forms and functions for women and for men that differentially affect settlement outcomes, particularly opportunities to become legal.
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Migrant filipina domestic workers and the international division of reproductive labor
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-tier transfer of reproductive labor in globalization between the following groups of women: (1) middle-class women in receiving nations, (2) migrant domestic workers, and (3) Third World women who are too poor to migrate.
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Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
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Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
TL;DR: Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an innovative interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor.
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From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor
TL;DR: In this paper, a study on African American, Latina, Asian American, and Native American women reveals the complex interaction of race and gender oppression in their lives, revealing the inadequacy of additive models that treat gender and race as separate and discrete systems of hierarchy (Collins 1986; King 1988; Brown 1989).
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Social Networks, Gender, and Immigrant Incorporation: Resources and Constraints
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a dynamic and variable portrayal of networks to demonstrate how they gradually assume different forms and functions for women and for men that differentially affect settlement outcomes, particularly opportunities to become legal.
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Migrant filipina domestic workers and the international division of reproductive labor
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-tier transfer of reproductive labor in globalization between the following groups of women: (1) middle-class women in receiving nations, (2) migrant domestic workers, and (3) Third World women who are too poor to migrate.
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Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
TL;DR: In Unequal Freedom, Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an extensive and clearlywritten exploration of gender and racial relations within the structures of labour and citizenship in the United States from Reconstruction to the Progressive Era (1870 to 1930) as discussed by the authors.
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Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
TL;DR: Evelyn Nakano Glenn offers an innovative interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor.