In the Privacy of Our Own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere in Canada

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In the Privacy of Our Own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere in Canada

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Date

1989

Authors

Sedef Arat-Koc

Abstract

Despite marked increases in the participation of women in the labour force, neither the availability and quality of socialized child care arrangements nor the division of housework between men and women appear to have changed radically.

Journal title

Studies in Political Economy

Volume

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Links

http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/13179/10063 (http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/13179/10063)

Economic sectors

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Content types

Policy analysis

Target groups

Policymakers and Researchers

Geographical focuses

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Other provinces, Federal, Nova Scotia, and National relevance

Spheres of activity

Gender and sexuality studies, Law, Political science, and Sociology

Languages

English

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