基本和可耗:移民家庭工人和COVID-19大流行
Kritika Pandey1, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas1, Gianne Sheena Sabio1
1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
The American behavioral scientist
|April 11, 2024
概括
随着COVID-19的流行,家庭佣工的基本劳动得到了重视,但是他们仍然被低估了. 尽管受到公众的赞扬,但这些必不可少的工人没有获得任何物质收益,仍然是可耗的.
科学领域:
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 劳动研究 劳动研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 在全球范围内,COVID-19大流行严重影响了劳动条件.
- 在疫情期间,家庭工人经常被归类为"基本劳动".
- 公共话语称赞家庭工人,但他们的物质补偿仍然停滞不前.
研究的目的:
- 检查COVID-19流行病对美国家庭工人的劳动条件的影响.
- 分析家务工作的象征性归类为"必不可少"及其物质报酬之间的差异.
- 调查国内劳动部门内"可消耗的基本工人"的概念.
主要方法:
- 对超过30个小时的虚拟市政厅会议进行了定性分析.
- 观察集中在洛杉矶和纽约的移民家庭工人倡导团体.
- 对公共话语的分析和对家务工作的象征性分类.
主要成果:
- 象征性地承认家庭工人是必不可少的,但没有得到物质补偿.
- 该研究将家庭工人确定为"可消耗的基本工人".
- 劳动条件没有改善,尽管在疫情期间他们的工作本质是必不可少的.
结论:
- 家庭工人的象征性"基本"地位并没有转化为改善物质条件.
- 家庭工人被低估了,即使他们的劳动是关键的.
- 疫情加剧了对必要但可供消耗的工人的现有不平等.
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