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  • 4 - The Value of Reproductive Labor

  • from Part II - Values of Forms of Labor
  • David Griffith, East Carolina University
  • Book:
    The Cultural Value of Work
    Published online:
    14 July 2022
    Print publication:
    28 July 2022, pp 79-102

  • Summary

    Women and men who work as temporary foreign contract workers tend to leave their families for six to eight months per year, completely separated from the reproductive labor contexts of their households, families, and communities. The chapter opens with a woman struggling to maintain meaningful connections with her family at home while working abroad, a process involving balancing the realities of extreme labor control in seafood plants in the United States with the needs of children at home who are at risk of unwed pregnancies, drug abuse, and resentment of absent parents. It lists ten forms of labor found in six communities in Mexico and Guatemala, comparing reproductive labor and foreign contract labor in terms of their ability to generate satisfaction and happiness.