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Who Cleans the Country?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
11 May 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Who Cleans the Country?

The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought vast changes in US lifestyles, but one aspect remains unchanged: housework is still a mostly a female domain and minorities and immigrants clean up the country, said Nicole Froio, a Colombian-Brazilian journalist researcher and author of the recent article, “The Pandemic Housework Dilemma Whitewashed.”  “Housework is not seen as productive work – it’s seen as maintenance,” said Froio. The people that do the cleaning are devalued.

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