Doctoral Dissertation Research: New Urban Geographies of Domestic Work

这篇博士论文的改进项目将研究在21世纪世纪有偿家政工作的转移时空组织。 今天，与过去的住家安排相比，家务工作更有可能由经常远离雇主的日工来做。 这种就业安排的转变代表了该部门的重大时空重组，因为工人的日常通勤可能会随着他们每天和每周的工作时间、他们为之工作的雇主数量以及与每个雇主互动的时间而沿着变化。 该项目将通过推进城市地理学和工作地理学的理论来考虑这种重组的重要性，并为微观和宏观流动模式的社会科学研究兴趣做出贡献。 本研究以国内雇佣关系为研究对象，其研究结果将有助于人们对劳动、工作、就业等概念的重新定义，以更好地理解服务导向、不安全、空间分散化的21世纪世纪。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将为有前途的学生提供支持，使其能够建立独立的研究事业。该项目密切关注有偿家务工作的空间和时间碎片化及其对工人，雇主和更广泛的社会的意义。 （1）有偿家务劳动的时空重组如何影响家务劳动者和雇主的日常生活，特别是家庭组织和管理策略？(2)这些时空变化对以下两方面有何影响：a）家庭雇用关系，和B）家庭佣工组织起来争取更好的工作条件？(3)与雇主-雇员关系有关的长期社会关系以及有偿家务工作在社会中的地位如何随着该部门的重组而改变？ 这些研究问题将通过一个混合的方法来回答，包括内容分析国内就业职位发布和新闻媒体来源，政府数据的描述性数据分析，参与观察工会活动，与工会领导人的关键线人访谈，并与家政工人和雇主的深入访谈。 对工人的采访将包括收集时间日记，以发展时空路径，作为理解在日益分散的工作中航行的生活体验的一种方式。这项研究将调查巴西的这些问题，但也将适用于家政工作也是经济重要组成部分的其他情况。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This doctoral dissertation improvement project will examine the shifting spatio-temporal organization of paid domestic work in the 21st century. Today, in contrast to past live-in arrangements, domestic work is much more likely to be performed by day workers who often live far away from their employers. This shift in employment arrangement represents a significant spatio-temporal reorganization of the sector as workers' daily commutes might now vary, along with their daily and weekly working hours, the number of employers for whom they work, and time spent interacting with each of them. This project will consider the significance of this reorganization by advancing theories in urban geography and the geographies of work, as well as contributing to renewed social science research interest in the micro and macro patterns of mobility. This project focuses on the domestic employment relationship, but the findings will contribute to the ongoing reformulation of concepts to better understand labor, work, and employment in the 21st century that is increasingly service-oriented, insecure, and spatially fragmented. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.This project pays close attention to the increasing spatial and temporal fragmentation of paid domestic work and its significance for workers, employers, and wider society. The project is centered on the following questions: (1) How has the spatio-temporal reorganization of paid domestic work impacted the daily lives of domestic workers and employers, particularly the household organization and management strategies of each? (2) What are the implications of these spatio-temporal changes for: a) the domestic employment relationship, and b) domestic worker organizing efforts for better working conditions? (3) How might longstanding social relations associated with the employer-employee relationship and the place of paid domestic work in society be changing in response to the reorganization of the sector? These research questions will be answered through a mixed methods approach including content analysis of domestic employment job postings and news media sources, descriptive data analysis of government data, participant observation of union activities, key informant interviews with union leaders, and in-depth interviews with domestic workers and employers. Interviews with workers will include the collection of time-diaries to develop time-space paths as a way of understanding the lived experience of navigating this increasingly fragmented work. The study will investigate these questions in Brazil but will be translatable to other contexts where domestic work is also a significant part of the economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.