I can say that i have experience doing this type of work and in some extend i can say that many people don't appreciate when they get serve.Serving people it is not sometimes a great experience i am currently a waitress and sometimes people think that because i am one they have to put me down and i actually have to "serve them " and do anything to make them happy. I cant say that everyone is like that but some people are and it makes it difficult i can compare after reading "Dirty Work " by Mignon Duffy to some of the examples that he uses that before this type of work was seeing as part of being a domestic servants my question is Do we think that people still think that people that do this type of work are servants or is only a job ?
The distinction you bring up between serving food and serving someone is very interesting. As Mignon Duffy notes, the history of care work and service work goes back to "domestic servants"(113). Can you provide a specific example that she, Duffy, includes in her chapter, to illustrate the point about providing a service rather than serving someone? The question you ask is a great one, and we'll pose it to the class tomorrow- does work define a person? in other words, are you what you do?
ReplyDeleteNo work doesn't define a person. I believe that the type of work that we do is not who we are.
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