D4.1 A short summary of research in the United States. Deliverable D4.1 within the MAJORdom project

The study of household workers and their activism in the US and Italy (2018 – 2021), carried out within the framework of the project titled “Intersections of Class and Ethnicity in Paid Domestic and Care Work” was guided by the following research questions: (1) What is the situation of white non-migrant citizen workers in paid domestic work in comparison to migrant and minority workers? (2) What is the experience of class position of white non-migrant citizen workers in paid domestic work? (3) What are the policy measures applied to domestic work sector? (4) Under the pandemic, I added a 4th question about the impact of COVID-19 related crisis on the sector. While the study of organizations and policies was an important and somewhat independent part of my research, within the project, and especially in the part dedicated to workers, I aimed to understand the position of white, non-Hispanic, non-Latinx and US-born workers specifically, to address a gap in the scholarship. The specific focus of my project (on white, non-immigrant workers) is atypical for the mainstream research, which centers on immigrants and people of color. It is also not congruent with the demographic profile of the organizations active in the sector.