The New Servant Problem: Domestic Work, Race, and the Gendered Division of Labor

• In Event: The Political Theory of Care and Work

Brief Overview

I explore the relationship between race and the gendered division of labor by analyzing paid domestic work in the United States, with special attention to the reemergent concern about a servant problem and its connection to the crisis in care.

Author

• Ophelia Ekaterini Vedder, Princeton University