Article,
DOMESTIC SERVICE AND INDUSTRIALIZATION
Comparative Studies in Sociology, (1978)
Abstract
The article discusses the impact of industrialization on domestic service. With respect to the process of industrialization in both western historical experience and development of third world, domestic service was the primary source of urban employment for women. Sixteen to twenty percent of the workers in currently developing countries are in this type of work at any one time. Domestic service is interesting not only as the most usual occupation of women at this stage in industrialization, but also because it serves as a useful entry point for analyzing the rationalization of the domestic economy as the production of goods and services is gradually removed from familial control. In the United States, domestic service did not come under social security until 1950, and even today many are still not covered as a result of the part-time structure of this type of employment. In Peru there are a variety of laws, which intentionally, or in fact, affect the lives of servants. In Lima, Peru,
