To browse Academia. The compilation focuses on the intricate relationship between care work, social activism, and the socio-political implications of labor, particularly in domestic settings. Through a blend of personal testimonies, historical references, and artistic interpretations, the work explores the intersection of gender, labor, and politics, aiming to highlight the often-overlooked contributions of domestic workers to society.
The journal emphasizes the need for recognition, compensation, and the rethinking of care as a commons, advocating for social change and solidarity among workers.
Based on qualitative data, this article focuses on management practices in social cooperatives operating as non-profit providers of d miciliary care services in Italy. Their livelihood is eroded by the presence of migrant liv e-in care-givers, who are privately employed, inexpensive and often irregular. The arti cle analyses the strategies adopted by the managers in order to negotiate this competition, an d shows how these challenge dominant gendered constructions of care work.
When Glo ria, a long-time domes tic work er from El Sal vador liv ing in the San Fran cisco Bay Area, com plained about the depres sion and night sweats she had been expe rienc ing since quit ting her job, it was for a pecu liar rea son.
She had worked as a person al care atten dant for an elder ly cou ple in their pri vate home for sev er al years, until the elder ly wife became so sick she had to be tak en to a nurs ing home for inten sive care, and Glo ria was left only to care for the hus band. She was con tract ed by one of their chil dren, a daugh ter.
