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- Title
Women of Color in White Households: Coping Strategies of Live-in Domestic Workers.
- Authors
Cohen, Rina
- Abstract
Drawing upon data from fifty intensive interviews, this research explores coping styles used by live-in colored domestics working for white employers. immigration and labor policies enable middle-class Canadian families to employ a captive, vulnerable group of Third World women in an exploitative situation which generates gender, class, and race discrimination. Three types of coping strategies are identified: external -- mobilizing community resources and ties with people outside the labor situation, internal -- utilizing resources from within work situations, cognitive --altering the definition of the situation. By demonstrating the power resources of the oppressed, this study attempts to overcome the `powerlessness" bias in the literature on domestics.
- Subjects
HOUSEHOLD employees; RACE discrimination; RACE relations; RACISM; HOUSEHOLDS; LABOR policy
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1991, Vol 14, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00992194