Artículo
Domestic Hierarchies: Household Workers and Middle-class Employers in Buenos Aires, 1956–1976
Fecha de publicación:
01/2018
Editorial:
University of Nebraska
Revista:
Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies
ISSN:
1549-9502
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Resumen
In Argentina, substantial changes took place in domestic service since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, such as the decreasing number of workers per household, the gradual shift towards the coexistence of live-in and live-out arrangements, the sanction of a legal code that protected household workers´ rights, etc. These transformations gave way to new conflicts that revolved around domestic employees´ "inadequate" skills and knowledge and their "improper" use of the home. If the presence of a domestic employee guaranteed the social status of the family that employed one, "inappropriate" behavior could also call this status into question. By analyzing the employers´ responses to their former employees demands filed at the Tribunal of Domestic Work between 1956 and 1976, I explore the ways in which the work carried out by domestic employees and their presence in the employers´ home were part of the construction of social hierarchies.
Palabras clave:
Domestic Service
,
Househoold Workers
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Domestic Employers
,
Social Hierarchies
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Citación
Pérez, Inés; Domestic Hierarchies: Household Workers and Middle-class Employers in Buenos Aires, 1956–1976; University of Nebraska; Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies; 9; 1; 1-2018; 35-50
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