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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Boris, Eileen

Titel

Not Your Father's Capitalism

Ist Teil von

• American Jewish history, 2019-10, Vol.103 (4), p.537-540

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The low mortality rates of the Lower East Side supposedly came from the scrubbing and washing of Jewish mothers who labored inside their tenement flats, hauling water up flights of stairs to attempt cleanliness despite overcrowded and decrepit surroundings.8 The shop keeping, petty trading, home-based outwork, and other forms of earning provided cash necessary for bustling, home management and family survival.9 Commodified forms of reproductive labor took generative forms. The sex work of some immigrant Jewish women, as in Buenos Aires, sustained families through remittances (monies sent home) and allowed men who organized trafficking and prostitution to amass capital.10 Jewish women have been more likely to hire household workers than enter domestic service (especially in comparison to other immigrant groups). Heidi Hartmann, "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism," Capital & Class 3, no. 2 (1979): 1–33; Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs 18, no.1 (1992): 1–43; V. Spike Peterson, "Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies," International Feminist Journal of Politics 4, no.1 (2002): 1–30. [...]Judith E. Smith, Family Connections: A History of Italian and Jewish Immigrant Lives in Providence Rhode Island, 1900-1940 (Albany: State University of New York, 1985) situates varieties of income generation in a manufacturing economy of textile mills and small jewelry shops. 10.