Announcements• Final Project Prep:

• Tues, 4/30 – last day to join CARE Project

• Fri, 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview

• May 1st March & Rally – 2pm meet-up @ Civic Center; Closing Rally 5pm @ Chicano Park

• 5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due

DOMÉSTICADomestic Work in So Cal’s Global City

public/private & global/local• New world domestic order

• Novus ordo seclorum• Global cities = survival circuits

+ invisible domestic labor• Who performs reproductive

labor and why?• Naturalized by gender & race• Home as site of intimacy &

labor• Transnational motherhood

• “To be a good mother, I had to leave my children”

So Cal Survival Circuits• Los Angeles as global city

• Deindustrialization = growing gap between rich and poor

• Economic center of Pacific Rim = growing service economy

• Pre-existing circuits of imperialism + Bracero Program + MX economic crises feminization of Mexican labor

• Civil War + Military Insurrections increased Central American immigration

La Doméstica• Live-in nanny/housekeeper

• Lack of boundaries, lowest wages• Most exploitative of newest

immigrants – “the bridging occupation”

• Food & dehumanization (Sotelo 35)• Live-out nanny/housekeeper

• Clearer boundaries, relatively higher pay

• Possibility for family life• Housecleaner

• Higher hourly wages, shorter work week, flexibility

• Constant cultivation of network & route of casas

Informal Labor• Informal vs formal labor

• Taxed and monitored by governmental agencies; subject to regulation and accountability

• Informality of hiring practice social networks, references and reputations

• lack of official pay standardization• Decrease of wages with longer work tenure

(83)• Withholding of information between

employers (86)• lack of clarification of worker’s duties

and employer responsibilities• Agencies = formalizing the informal for certain nannies (103)

• Lack of clear etiquette for termination = blow ups & white lies