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- Title
Caring about Care Workers: Organizing in the Female Shadow of Globalization.
- Authors
Ally, Shireen
- Abstract
Despite being rendered invisible by contemporary mainstream accounts of globalization, and historically, by the mainstream labour movement, reproductive care workers in the female shadow of globalization are claiming visibility through a groundswell of global organizing. In an analysis of the contemporary organizing efforts of migrant domestic workers, the article argues that the recent proliferation of care worker organizing is characterized by a bifurcated structure of representation in which an association model that involves primarily non-union-based labour organizing competes with a union model that seeks to overcome organized labour's historical failure to represent the sector. In this bipolar landscape of migrant domestic worker organizing, the article suggests that effective worker-controlled representation is not always achieved by the mere fact of organization, and that the union-based labour movement would benefit from recognition of the significance of gendered care work under globalization.
- Subjects
LABOR movement; LABOR; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL relations; SOCIAL movements; LABOR unions; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Labour, Capital & Society / Travail, capital et société, 2005, Vol 38, Issue 1/2, p184
- ISSN
0706-1706
- Publication type
Article