Domestic Labor in Globalized Tepoztlán: From a Gendered Labor Process Standpoint

Abstract

In the 1970s, a materialist-feminist academy coalesced around the project to isolate and theorize the links between housework – chores women undertake for their households – and women's inequality across all their labor processes. This paper revisits the domestic labor debate at a time when there has never been more tension between women's work in social production and capitalist production. Based on fieldwork conducted in the northern Morelos highland community of Tepoztlán between 1993 and 1998, I disaggregate the performance of domestic labor in Tepoztlán in the time of globalization from a gendered labor process standpoint.

Citation

Perutz, S. (2006), "Domestic Labor in Globalized Tepoztlán: From a Gendered Labor Process Standpoint", Dannhaeuser, N. and Werner, C. (Ed.) Markets and Market Liberalization: Ethnographic Reflections (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(05)24008-8