The Household as a Workplace: The Articulation of Class and Gender in Filipino Middle Class Households

Abstract

Every society depends on household work for its reproduction, yet household work is one of the most undervalued work. It is often placed at the bottom-most rung in the hierarchy of human occupations
This paper examines the development of household work in Philippine society, and tries to pinpoint the socio-economic political-cultural factors that may have brought about its present evolution.