The Linkage between the Household and Workplace of Dominican Women in the U.S

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This article explores the interdependence between the household and workplace in the lives of Dominican, immigrant women. Ethnographic research documents that while women's participation in wage work contributes to an improvement in domestic social relations, these household level changes do not in turn stimulate modifications in female workers’ consciousness and demands for improved working conditions. Paradoxically, the beliefs about immigration and work which are rooted in the family, and the immigration goals that are realized through household cooperation, militate against working class identification and organized resistance in the workplace.

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