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Rosenbaum, Susanna.

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Domestic economies: Immigrant workers, native-born employers, and "domestic service" in Los Angeles.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Domestic economies: Immigrant workers, native-born employers, and "domestic service" in Los Angeles./
Author:	Rosenbaum, Susanna.
Description:	504 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3462.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234177
ISBN:	9780542877971

Domestic economies: Immigrant workers, native-born employers, and "domestic service" in Los Angeles.
Rosenbaum, Susanna.

Domestic economies: Immigrant workers, native-born employers, and "domestic service" in Los Angeles. - 504 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3462.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2006.

This dissertation examines "domestic service" as social world, lived experience, and category in the public imagination; as all of these, "domestic service" works to produce particular types of persons, lending shape to individuals' experiences and understandings of themselves and each other. My research focuses on Mexican and Central American domestic workers and their employers in Los Angeles. It asks how global-transformations---changing financial arrangements, labor configurations, and migration patterns---have disrupted the work of social reproduction and upended seemingly immutable categories of identity, such as class, home, family, motherhood, and femininity. My work illustrates how individual women grapple with these suddenly unstable notions, how these become sources of anxiety as well as subjects of conscious enactment. Through fieldwork among employers and domestic workers, I found that women in both groups take up a variety of domains---the arts, political activism, and everyday practical consciousness---as they work to renegotiate these meanings.

ISBN: 9780542877971Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Domestic economies: Immigrant workers, native-born employers, and "domestic service" in Los Angeles.
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520 $a My analysis sifts through three layers, including (1) the city of Los Angeles---the physical spaces that produce individuals as particular' types of persons, even as these spaces are transformed through new and different forms of habitation; (2) the popular imagination---increased public and media attention that turns "domestic service" into an object of public debate, artistic performance, and political activism; and (3) the households---the daily practices and aspirations that shape the lives of individual employers and domestic workers. These different angles on "domestic service" highlight a number of junctures through which employers and immigrant struggle to define themselves, continually negotiating between their own experiences and how each of these sites attempts to construct them.
520 $a Significantly, although employers and the public imagination increasingly identify domestic workers with their jobs, the rest of these interactions produce them not as "domesticas" but as immigrants---poor, female, and ethnically "other." Domestic service remains separable from the larger experience of being an immigrant. Nevertheless, this category continues to gain prominence, attracting broader public attention, as well as knowing recognition from both domestic workers and employers. In contrast, immigrant life, which is etched into every corner of Los Angeles, remains invisible.
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