Global networks enable intense exploitation of female migrant labor in unregulated fields

Evidence

Yet it is not quite time to start celebrating post-patriarchy. Women and girls still constitute seventy percent of the world’s poor, do two-thirds of the world’s work, earn less than one-tenth of its income, and own less than one-hundredth of its property. For those who do work, networks create “intense exploitation of labor, especially female labor.” Although Third World sweatshop workers and outsourced call center laborers are the most frequently publicized examples of this exploitation, equally significant and too often ignored are those who migrate to the First World to work in unregulated fields such as house cleaning, child rearing, elder care, and sex work. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 84

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Could support the ‘Grafting & Growth’ infrastructure argument as a parity case, but more directly parallels the class-labor exploitation themes in the immodesty article’s cross-cultural moral signaling.
• XREF: connects to: Migrant laborers have become a foremost commodity in the global economy — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 27; Two rival racialized explanations coexist for sweatshop exploitation of migrant women — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2856

Broader Connections

• Two rival racialized explanations coexist for sweatshop exploitation of migrant women #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2856
• Migrant laborers have become a foremost commodity in the global economy #expands (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 27