What is the problem with western households employing Third World domestic labour and how can it be solved?
Western families are increasingly outsourcing the functions of domestic work, including the reproductive process of caring for children, to a cheap domestic labour market largely comprised of migrant workers from developing countries. This approach to raising children poses some significant questions about the potential of a rising generation to become productive members of society because society as a whole has decided to cut corners in the care and nurture they provide. An argument can be made that western families are losing a quality of care because their children are being raised through a market that provides poor compensation to caregivers and is somewhat volatile. Clearer, however, is the price that migrant mothers and their families pay in lost care for their children as a result of the time they spend as domestic labourers in western households. In addition, domestic labourers and their families suffer from the abuses placed upon them because of an increasingly widening rift
