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44 previously migrated 2. after this initial period of acculturation, these relatives instrumental in getting her her 1st. servant job, often w/ a lower middle class family living in a commercial neighborhood. 3. while receiving on-the-job training the servant is likely to earn a low salary and receive few, if any fringe benefits beyond room & board 4. after 6 mo or a year she moves on to a new job in a better neighborhood; begins to demand fringe ben. 5. [[strikethrough]] usually [[/strikethrough]] goes thru a series of about 6 jobs in the course of a 7-yr. career in dom. service, each job lasting 2 mo to 2 yrs 6. at age of about 24 drops out to start family of her own in countries like Brazil or Argentina, career may include moves from a provincial city to metropolitan center in Brazil salaries 3 to 5 times higher in Sao Paulo than in prov. cities - Smith claims dom. service a path to upward mobility but author contents a dead end career which does not 45 provide major new skills [LEFT MARGIN: p 138] permission to study one of the most imp. fringe benefits mentioned, but usually sewing classes which not used in the labor market later on - many domestics able to leave & enter other occup, mainly industry & personal services many have as their goal, however, form. of their own family difficulty of doing this due to live-in status & long hrs. [LEFT MARGIN: labor leaders skept. idealiz] servant isolated from interaction with other workers making dev. of a working class identity diff - probable that passage thru high income households with appliances & luxuries unknown in rural areas causes idealization of her employer's way of life & increases desire to follow housewife model long hrs, residential segregation & intimacy w/ wealthy households atypical of other working class jobs [LEFT MARGIN: p 139] closest counterpart to dom. service for women is construction work for men [LEFT MARGIN: p 140] availability of cheap domestic service affects lives of middle & upper