Struggle, exit, “resilience”— or how precarious workers cope with late neoliberalism. Individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Hellgren, Zenia
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-30T07:15:04Z
• dc.date.embargoEnd info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-07-24
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract This article inquires the individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain. I use fieldwork conducted between 2013 and 2023 to examine the interplay between the migrant workers’ individual coping strategies, the claims-making strategies of the domestic workers’ trade union Sindihogar, and the structures they operate within and attempt to challenge. Drawing on contemporary research about precarious workers’ movements, I aim to explore to what extent this social movement union has the potential to reduce the power of structural constraints and increase the power of agency. Implicit is a broader, more provocative question: To what extent is substantial change possible within the current political-economic order, here defined as late neoliberalism? I found that while the movement’s community-building approach may empower activists at an individual level, there are significant structural barriers to its potential to accomplish change in terms of better job conditions for this highly precarious workforce. In addition, I suggest that an increasing focus on precarious workers’ “resilience” risks undermining narratives of structural transformation.
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• dc.identifier.citation Hellgren Z. Struggle, exit, “resilience”— or how precarious workers cope with late neoliberalism. Individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain. Int Political Sociol. 2024 Sep;18(3):1-19. DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae029
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae029
• dc.identifier.issn 1749-5679
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60865
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Oxford University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof International Political Sociology. 2024 Sep;18(3):1-19
• dc.rights © Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Political Sociology following peer review. The version of record Hellgren Z. Struggle, exit, “resilience”— or how precarious workers cope with late neoliberalism. Individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain. Int Political Sociol. 2024 Sep;18(3):1-19. DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae029 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/18/3/1/7719257 and https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae029.
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• dc.subject.other Immigrants -- Espanya
• dc.subject.other Servei domèstic -- Espanya
• dc.subject.other Treballadors migratoris -- Espanya
• dc.title Struggle, exit, “resilience”— or how precarious workers cope with late neoliberalism. Individual and collective agency of female migrant domestic workers in Spain
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