| FT-60990-13 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Elizabeth Quay Hutchison | From Servants to Workers: A Social History of Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Chile | 6/1/2013 - 7/31/2013 | $6,000.00 | Elizabeth | Quay | Hutchison | | | | Regents of the University of New Mexico | Albuquerque | NM | 87131-0001 | USA | 2013 | Latin American History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
During the grant period, I will complete my book manuscript, the bulk of which I am drafting during my 2012-2013 sabbatical. In "From Servants to Workers: A Social History of Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Chile," I show how household workers in Chile have addressed their social and economic exploitation by demanding – and over time increasingly securing – rights enjoyed by other workers. My study also advances current scholarship by placing household workers at the center of Chilean labor history, employing that occupation as a lens for understanding how forms of inequality (ethnic, gender, and economic) have been both perpetuated and transformed through domestic service relations. Through this book and articles already published, I examine how and why domestic service has remained one of the key “underdeveloped” sectors in Chile’s twentieth-century economy. |