Citizenship Rights, Domestic Work, and the Fair Labor Standards Act

Nadasen, Premilla

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“…Contributing to these barriers was the exclusion of domestic workers in the FLSA of 1938 that excluded domestic workers (and farmworkers) from the right to a minimum wage and overtime pay, and continued to exclude them when the act was extended in 1974. The act is more extensively analyzed by Premilla Nadasen, who examines it from the perspective of domestic worker activism demanding their inclusion into labor law (). Her discussion points to normative racial and gender assumptions that shape understandings of domestic work, and how they influenced congressional debates on the amendments.…”

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“…Her discussion points to normative racial and gender assumptions that shape understandings of domestic work, and how they influenced congressional debates on the amendments. Although their claim to social citizenship established a feminist alliance to revalue women's household labor and claim it as legitimate work, their campaign fell short of ensuring FLSA coverage but indeed revealed “the limitations of the meaning of citizenship and illustrates how race, class and gender defined those limitations” (Nadasen, : 76)…”

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Migrant domestic workers and shifting strategies in organizing

Pérez

2017

Sociology Compass

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The mobilization of domestic workers in the United States has strengthened and grown nationally in the last 15 years, and scholars have been paying particular attention to the ways their organizing has undertaken innovative strategies to address social, cultural, and legal exclusions specific to migrant domestic workers. Research has focused on historicizing the entrenched colonial legacy of servitude and domesticity, but more recently studies have concentrated on documenting the challenges and victories domestic workers have achieved as a result of their legislative state campaigns for a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. This article reviews recent research that analyzes the complex strategies employed in organizing, and the role that migrant domestic workers play in challenging the boundaries of citizenship and integrating a transnational dimension to domestic worker organizing. Although research shows that enforcement continues to be a central issue in states where a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights has been enacted, migrant domestic workers continue to strengthen the coalitional power that has shown to transform new directions in organizing that demand alternate ways of contemplating workers experiences as generating different principles of justice.

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Section: Against Exclusion: Shifting Strategies In Organizingmentioning

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Section: Against Exclusion: Shifting Strategies In Organizingmentioning

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Migrant domestic workers and shifting strategies in organizing

Pérez

2017

Sociology Compass

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“…Respect was also part of domestic worker organizing. Similar to clerical workers, employers often treated domestic workers as invisible (Nadasen, ; Nussbaum, ).…”

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Rights and respect: The working women's movement's influence on clerical unionization in the United States

Walter

2019

Journal of Labor and Society

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By the early 1970s, women office workers in the United States began to seriously address their working conditions. Their efforts expressed renewed expectations that women workers were entitled to certain basic rights, such as respect on the job and equal pay. Finding that women's lack of collective bargaining power limited their ability to improve conditions, working women organizations sought to further address their problems through union organizing campaigns. Affiliating with the Service Employees International Union, 9to5-a working women's organization-formed Local 925 and District 925. Within District 925, organizers, using labor feminism, effectively combined the goals of the working women's movement and the labor movement, as seen in the campaigns at the University of Cincinnati. District 925's campaigns combined tactics from the women's movement, such as consciousness-raising and one-on-one organizing, and traditional union tactics. District 925 created a novel relationship-based unionism that led to tangible gains for clerical workers.

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“…These struggles provided a hospitable context in which domestic workers could advocate for their inclusion in the Fair Labor Standards Act. Domestic workers' struggle for inclusion represented an effort to simultaneously overcome the racialized exclusion of a key sector of Black workers from standard worker rights and protections and to bring social recognition and value to women's work in the home (Nadasen, 2012).…”

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“…The bestknown among these is the National Domestic Workers Union, founded by Dorothy Bolden in Atlanta in 1968. In 1971, NCHE brought these local domestic worker organizations together to form the Household Technicians of America (HTA), and they took up the struggle to win inclusion of domestic workers in federal wage and hour protections (Nadasen, 2012).…”

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The Long Journey Home: The Contested Exclusion and Inclusion of Domestic Workers from Federal Wage and Hour Protections in the United States

Goldberg¹

Human Rights Documents Online

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This paper covers the historical trajectory of domestic workers' contested relationship with minimum wage and overtime protections in the United States. It begins with a brief snapshot of the current coverage of domestic workers in federal-level minimum wage and hour protections, followed by a description of the wage-setting tradition in the United States. It then traces the initial exclusion of domestic workers from foundational minimum wage and overtime protections in the 1930s through their partial inclusion in the 1970s and the ongoing struggles for full inclusion today. In the current moment, special attention is given to recent state-level struggles for the full inclusion of privately paid domestic workers and a recent victory that won the full inclusion of publicly paid homecare workers. The narrative concludes with cross-cutting lessons from these histories, offered in the hopes of supporting the efforts of advocates in other nations to win minimum wage protections for domestic workers.

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Citizenship Rights, Domestic Work, and the Fair Labor Standards Act

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Migrant domestic workers and shifting strategies in organizing

Migrant domestic workers and shifting strategies in organizing

Rights and respect: The working women's movement's influence on clerical unionization in the United States

The Long Journey Home: The Contested Exclusion and Inclusion of Domestic Workers from Federal Wage and Hour Protections in the United States

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