"From Servitude to Service Work" Response

I found it very interesting that the Glenn essay seemed to compensate for all the criticisms we had of the Kessler-Harris essay in class the other day. Not only does it fill in the rest of the history of women in labor from the Great Depression onwards, but it also addresses the other geographical regions of the United States besides the Northeast. It was especially interesting to read about Glenn's take on the racial division of reproductive labor in Northern California, since that's where I'm from. Although she says that the vast majority of service workers in Northern California are Japanese, in my personal experience, I have found that it's actually Mexicans that are the most common. Perhaps Japanese women in reproductive labor were much more common in previous decades, as this piece was written almost 20 years ago, but it would be interesting to hear Glenn's take on what caused this "racial shift" in the division of labor. Today, as far as reproductive labor goes, it seems that Asian women are relegated to childcare and housekeeping jobs for wealthier Asian families and that Caucasian families almost prefer Mexican service workers to those of any other ethnicity (something that Glenn emphasize was definitely not the case before). In Northern California, Asians have figuratively "moved up" Glenn's racial ladder and Mexican immigrants have been eager to take their spot. Today, it is not uncommon for Japanese families to employ Mexican cleaning ladies, gardeners, and nannies. If Glenn is the author that we'll get to talk to in class, I would be very interested to hear what she has to say about this recent development.