“Italy is a democratic republic founded on work”: article 1 of the Italian Constitution (1948) mirrors a concept of work as a source of rights. I will analyze whether some activities performed by women, such as domestic and care work (paid and unpaid) were (and are) included in, or rather excluded from, this seemingly universal notion of work. I will pay attention to the statistical construction of housewives as economically passive, and to the “delabourization” of domestic work. I will address the “feminization of work” and the process by which the trend “ennobling work” is reversing, making many types of work “servile” again.
Toiling Women, Non-working Housewives, and Lesser Citizens: Statistical and Legal Constructions of Female Work and Citizenship in Italy
Raffaella Sarti
2018
Abstract
“Italy is a democratic republic founded on work”: article 1 of the Italian Constitution (1948) mirrors a concept of work as a source of rights. I will analyze whether some activities performed by women, such as domestic and care work (paid and unpaid) were (and are) included in, or rather excluded from, this seemingly universal notion of work. I will pay attention to the statistical construction of housewives as economically passive, and to the “delabourization” of domestic work. I will address the “feminization of work” and the process by which the trend “ennobling work” is reversing, making many types of work “servile” again.File in questo prodotto:
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