Glenn Response

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, in her essay "From Servitude to Service Work," explains how the division of labor is broken into two categories, gender and race. Glenn's essay is a nice liaison between Kessler-Harris's article "Stratifying by Sex: Understanding the History of Working Women" and Ehrenreich's essay "Maid to Order." Glenn links the two by including the racial divisions in the work force as well as the gender differences in the work force. Like Ehrenreich, Glenn speaks of how immigrants and minorities tend to be the more common in the field of house hold work (maids, home/child care, etc.). However, I feel that the beginning of Ehrenriche's essay provides more of a feminist movement than that of Glenn's. Glenn's essay is almost entirely geared on minorities in manual labor and the common labor race in particular regions ("African American women in the South, Mexican American women in the Southwest, and Japanese American women in California"). 

I was perplexed about how geared toward race that this essay was and how many examples and facts that were given. Thus, I wondered what background and race that Glenn actually was. I did a little research that informed me that Glenn is an Asian professor at UC Berkeley. She is actually an Asian American Studies professor, but still has had many other articles published about racial inequality and gender inequality.