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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

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provide major new skills 
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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.
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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
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closest counterpart to dom. service for women is construction work for men
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availability of cheap domestic service affects lives of middle & upper