Interesting article on the role and changing nature of domestic work in American (and I'm sure Canadian) society.
http://www.alternet.org/labor/low-benefits-temporary-jobs-work-getting-worse-hope-labor-rights-emerging-surprising-place?page=0%2C0&akid=9330.1074389.wHzMbZ&rd=1&src=newsletter703564&t=1&paging=off A few sample passages: ...what we're trying to do is create more awareness and space in the public imagination to understand the lives and experiences of domestic workers and recognize the humanity of this work force as true and real as their own humanity, and to see the ways in which we're all domestic workers. And to see the ways in which we all count on domestic work and care in one way or another. ...our system is set up for a world where you go get a job and you stay at your job for 40 years, and they give you a pension and they pay for your healthcare. And that just doesn't exist anymore. Our whole legal framework around social programs and around labor rights and protections were rooted in a very different economy, before globalization, in a manufacturing based economy. Ed
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