The New World Domestic Order

The New World Domestic Order focuses domestic work in the United States in relation to the immigrants who fill these positions. Since more women are working outside the home and working long hours, the house work is becoming a job for someone outside the family is being paid to do. Those who are employed are mainly immigrant women and their job consist of everything in the home short of giving birth. Paid domestic worker is a lucrative job for immigrant, especially Latinas, looking to come to United States and find employment. Paid domestic workers have become so popular that it is part of the upper and middle class family life style. These women are the backbone of successful families and their relationships are crucial in child raising.

Though there important role in the success of children and the adult that pay them, domestic paid workers are paid low wages and are stigmatized. Since these workers are working within the home, their job is seen as being unimportant. Only jobs that occurs in the public sphere is considered important and therefore deserve a high wage. Also, these workers are stigmatized as being illegal immigrants, stupid and therefore not worthy of not just high wages but respect.

Though this notion of childcare is not new in this country and traces back to slavery, its reoccurrance of is perpetuating racial, class, and gender dominance. We are holding a group of people to a job that is not providing social mobility and is just a form of servitude, in which, they get no real benefit. In reality, they are working for change and are losing time to provide for their own families.