Migrant and domestic and care workers: unfree labour, crises of social reproduction and the unsustainability of life under ‘vagabond capitalism’
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1970s and 1980s, discussions about domestic labour were central to feminist analysis and visions of liberation and equality. As domestic and care work have become partly commodified and internationalized, however, they have become closely associated with forms of unfree labour often as a result of specific forms of state intervention and regulation or lack thereof. The generalization and normalization of different forms of unfree labour among migrant domestic and care workers not only impact individual workers and their families negatively. They also have very serious implications for labour and gender relations, and generally for social structures and power relations. Drawing on studies from different countries, but also focusing specifically on Canadian immigration policies for temporary migrant workers, this chapter demonstrates how state policies, action and/or inaction contribute to creating conditions of unfreedom and active construction, condoning and/or reproduction of inequalities of gender and race.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it