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TY - JOUR
T1 - Social reproduction as unregulated work
AU - McGrath, Siobhan
AU - DeFilippis, James
PY - 2009/3
Y1 - 2009/3
N2 - In this article, two cases of paid social reproductive labour performed in the home in New York City are examined: subsidized child care and paid domestic work. Particular attention is paid to the organization of the industries and the experiences of employees in those worksites. It is demonstrated that there continues to be a persistent and wilful exclusion of this work from regulation, as well as systematic violations of those regulations which do govern the work, constituting what the authors term 'unregulated work'. It should be noted that the workers paid by the government are not exempt from this finding, but fit very clearly into this larger pattern. This illustrates the problems which arise from the process of transforming domestic spaces, and communities more broadly, into spaces of wage labour in American cities. It further serves as a powerful red assertion of the denial of the value of 'women's work'.
AB - In this article, two cases of paid social reproductive labour performed in the home in New York City are examined: subsidized child care and paid domestic work. Particular attention is paid to the organization of the industries and the experiences of employees in those worksites. It is demonstrated that there continues to be a persistent and wilful exclusion of this work from regulation, as well as systematic violations of those regulations which do govern the work, constituting what the authors term 'unregulated work'. It should be noted that the workers paid by the government are not exempt from this finding, but fit very clearly into this larger pattern. This illustrates the problems which arise from the process of transforming domestic spaces, and communities more broadly, into spaces of wage labour in American cities. It further serves as a powerful red assertion of the denial of the value of 'women's work'.
KW - child care
KW - domestic work
KW - labour relations
KW - social reproduction
KW - unregulated work
KW - women's work
KW - LABOR
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=62149088822&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0950017008099778
DO - 10.1177/0950017008099778
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 66
EP - 83
JO - Work, Employment and Society
JF - Work, Employment and Society
SN - 0950-0170
IS - 1
ER -