{"id":5295,"date":"2024-02-07T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=5295"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:09","slug":"neither-free-nor-slave-stranded-migrant-domestic-workers-the-employment-agency-and-reproductive-labor-under-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/neither-free-nor-slave-stranded-migrant-domestic-workers-the-employment-agency-and-reproductive-labor-under-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither Free nor Slave: \u201cStranded\u201d Migrant Domestic Workers, the Employment Agency, and Reproductive Labor under Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h3 id=\"political-science-public-talk-with\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political Science Public Talk with:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eileen Boris<\/strong><br>\nHull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies<br>\nProfessor of History, Black Studies, and Global Studies<br>\nUniversity of California, Santa Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/polisci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Eileen-Boris-talk_cropped-poster-image_2024_website-event-post.png\" alt=\"newspaper advertisement\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBuy a Negro Maid\u2014Get Plaid Stamps Free!,\u201d<br>\nNew York Amsterdam News, June 16, 1962<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long history of migrant domestic workers challenges the story of the growth of free labor under capitalism. In the post-WWII years, fee-charging employment agencies trafficked African American, Puerto Rican, and Latin American women for domestic work in New York City and its suburbs as well as other major metropolitan areas like Chicago and Los Angeles. To regulate what became known as the maid trade, civil rights, worker, and government advocates responded with new regulations during the period between the 1933 ILO Convention #34 and 1997 Convention #181 on private employment agencies, showing continuities from the intelligence office and reformer efforts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and marking the re-emergence of household labor in the US as a privatized solution to the crisis in reproductive labor. This is a history of resistance, part of freedom struggles, sometimes through the weapons of the weak, sometimes through law and public policy, as well as a story about the persistence of unfree labor under mid-20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-5295","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2024-02-08T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2024-02-08T16:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"LA","cu_event_meeting_room":"A602","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"Free","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/5295\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}