«No tenía pretensiones, solo quería trabajar» Españolas en Francia, servicio doméstico y empleo informal (1939-1975) by Rocío Negrete Peña

“…Housekeepers, Jacks of all Trades, maids, dressmakers working from home, these women configured an important part of their identity by means of their work. …”
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Travail, Mémoires et Femmes dans la ceinture industrielle de Lisbonne (Portugal) by Inês Fonseca

“…Those still employed have seen their employment conditions and the social rights associated with work erode.For the most part, women continue to be limited to unpaid domestic work (as housewives) or poorly paid informal jobs (which are done at home, as babysitters, cleaners, dressmakers, cooks, etc.). Consequently, they have always been the first to constitute social networks of support as well as the first to resort to those networks – through the informal groups of relatives, neighbours, friends co-workers and also through more formal groups, like local associations and cooperatives of production.…”
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