Spouses do unpaid community-building labor under pressure that may affect partners’ reviews

Evidence

Military spouses are also on call to perform significant work outside the home. Mayberry-like feelings of community on bases don’t magically appear from nowhere. They develop in no small part because of the work spouses do to build community, especially at overseas locations. While there are no formal requirements for spouses to participate in base activities or directly support a service member’s job, subtle pressures suggest that not participating might affect their partner’s performance reviews. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 458

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: Angle: the invisible, uncompensated labor economy that keeps overseas bases functioning, run by dependent spouses.

Related

• Base community life depends on unpaid spouse labor under subtle coercion (similarity 0.90)
• Military spouses face 25 percent unemployment and 60 percent lower pay. (similarity 0.82)
• Officer spouses face career-linked pressure to perform unpaid community labor. (similarity 0.81)
• Overseas postings leave a quarter of military spouses unemployed. (similarity 0.81)
• Military power shapes nearly every aspect of spouses’ lives on overseas bases (similarity 0.78)
• Spouses of service members are effectively on call to the military. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Military spouses face extreme unemployment and pay penalties from constant moves #expands (0.75)