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Domestic Work and Everyday Life

Code: 101150
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Sociology OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Sara Moreno Colom
Email :
sara.moreno@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Vicent Borras Catala

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

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Objectives

The subject provides theoretical and empirical tools to analyze, from a gender perspective, the set of work and time that are part of everyday life.

Special attention is paid to:

- the set of subjects, activities, scenarios and social imaginaries that are part of everyday life

- the aspects that explain the incidence of work in everyday life

- the relationship between domestic and care work with employment

Learning outcomes

  1. Students must be capable of assessing the quality of their own work.
  2. Demonstrating a comprehension of the analysis of social phenomena presented in English, as well as observing their strengths and weaknesses.
  3. Effectively communicating the basic analysis of social phenomena in an elementary level of English.
  4. Students must be capable of managing their own time, planning their own study, managing the relationship with their tutor or adviser, as well as setting and meeting deadlines for a work project.
  5. Searching for documentary sources starting from concepts.
  6. Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
  7. Developing self-learning strategies.
  8. Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  9. Generating innovative and competitive proposals in research and professional activity.
  10. Defining the sociological concepts that interpret labour, employment and industrial relations.
  11. Comparing the meanings of several theoretical approaches about labour, employment and industrial relations.
  12. Relating them with the debates about capitalism, power and inequality.
  13. Identifying the social interpretations of work according with these approaches.
  14. Relating the debates regarding these approaches, that refer to labour, with the historical context in which they emerged.
  15. Identifying the underlying social phenomena of labour policies and conflicts.
  16. Comparing the reading of labour, employment and industrial relations from several ideologies of the social reality of Spain and Catalonia.
  17. Distinguishing sociological concepts, as well as the methods and techniques of social investigation commonly used to analyse labour.
  18. Relating the concepts, methods and techniques used to analyse labour with general theoretical and methodological debates.
  19. Distinguishing sociological concepts about labour, employment and industrial relations adopted by the actors involved in these policies and conflicts.
  20. Distinguishing the explanations of labour inequalities between classes, between genders and between ethnic groups that these actors take for granted.
  21. Relating the explanations of labour inequalities with general theoretical and methodological debates.
  22. Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.

Contents

Block I. Theoretical aspects about domestic work and everyday life: from work(s) to double presence


1. Conceptual clarifications. The concept of work. The concept of everyday life. Presences and absences in work and everyday life


2. Historical origins. Female labor activity in capitalism. Social imaginaries around women's work


3. Epistemological origins. The debate about domestic work. The sexual division of labor. The reproduction of the labor force


4. The reconceptualization. Domestic and family work. The theoretical perspective of production/reproduction. The work of production and the work of reproduction. Double presence and ambiguity


 


Block II. Empirical aspects about domestic work and everyday life: occupation, care work and time use


5. Empirical analysis of employment. Gender inequalities in the labor market. Occupational segregation. Employment discrimination. The total workload


 


6. The empirical analysis of domestic work. Dimensions and measurement possibilities. From economic quantification to social uses of time. The measurement through the temporal dimension and the content of the tasks. Changes and continuities.


7. The empirical analysis of everyday life. Dimensions and measurement possibilities. Measurement through care work and subjective meanings. Activities (childrean and long-term care) and symbolic representations (gendered structure of everyday life).


8. Work, everyday life and time. Power, negotiation and conflict. Triple-presence, time poverty and everyday well-being. Time policies and social inequalities.


 

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Theoretical classes and classroom comprehension activities 24 0.96
Writing and preparation of two individual essays and the group work 28 1.12
Reading of texts 55 2.2
Presentations and practical sessions 18 0.72
Discussions 18 0.72

The training activities include:

• Autonomous activities will involve reading and understanding texts individually (according to mandatory readings and the bibliography of the program) and sharing in small groups of 3 people. These activities also include the development of two individual writings and a group paper that make up a very important part of the ongoing evaluation (see the evaluation section of this Teaching Guide).

• Directed actvities will consist of the active participacion in the theoretical sessions and the activities of understanding concepts that will be developed in the classroom.

• Supervised activities will include both group presentations in practical sessions and the corresponding classroom discussion. In this case, the schedule of practical sessions, the list of mandatory readings and the schedule of deliveries will be available on the Virtual Campus. Topics will be assigned to the start of the course.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Seminars 10% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Two grupal exercises 40% 2 0.08 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22
Two individual exercises 50% 3 0.12 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22

The course will be evaluated in a continuous way.

The evaluation includes 3 types of activities:

1. Two individual exercises, corresponding to the two blocks of the programme (25% of the final mark, each).

2. Two group exercices based on the seminars (20% of the final mark, each)

3. Seminars (Attendance and participation in seminars is a requirement for the evaluation and 10% of the final mark).

The details of the activities will be available in Campus Virtual.

To average the grades, it will be necessary to have a minimum of 5 in the two individual essays.

You must bear in mind the basic academic rules on how to cite and avoid plagiarism (https://www.uab.cat/doc/GuiaCitesiPlagiEstudiants)

No Evaluation

In accordance to Normativa Acadèmica de la UAB (section 9 article 266), students who have not submitted to 50%, or more, of the evaluation activities will have the \"non-evaluation\" qualification.

Re-evaluation

Students will be given the opportunity to review and retake the two individual essays on the day scheduled by the Faculty for the subject's final exam. Seminar activities will not be subject to re-evaluation.

Unique assessment

In accordance with the Academic Regulations of the UAB, the possibility of the single evaluation is foreseen, which must be notified within the deadlines established for the Faculty. Specifically, the single assessment will consist of an exam (50%) about all the programme, an individual essay about the readings of the block I (25%) and a specific work about block II (25%). Attendance at the seminars is compulsory. These activities will be carried out and delivered on the same date following the calendar established by the Faculty.

Prohibited Use of AI

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted in any of its phases. Include fragments generated with AI in the papers will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.


The commission of any irregularity in the assessment (academic fraud, plagiarism or improper use of AI, unless such use is expressly authorised in the course guide), which could lead to a significant change in the grade, will result in that attempt being marked with a 0. If the course guide stipulates that obtaining a minimum mark in this assessment is a prerequisite for passing the module, or if multiple irregularities occur in the assessments for the same module, the final mark for that module will be 0. In addition, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who commits any of these irregularities. The teaching staff reserve the right to conduct oral interviews or an alternative assessment in order to verify the effective acquisition of knowledge and skills and thus the validity of the assessments carried out by the students. It is essential to have obtained a minimum mark in this assessment exercise or for various irregularities to have occurred.



Bibliography

Tema 1

Beneria Lourdes (1998). El trabajo inconcluso sobre el trabajo no remunerado. Revista Internacional del Trabajo 118/3

Duràn, Mª Ángeles (1991). La conceptualización del trabajo en la sociedad contemporánea. Revista de Economía y Sociología del Trabajo 13-14.

Torns, Teresa (2008). El trabajo y el cuidado: cuestiones teorico-metoddológicas desde la perspectiva de género. Empiria 15

Torns, Teresa (2019). Ausencias y presencias de las mujeres en el mundo del trabajo. Pasos a la izquierda 16.

Tema 2

Borderías, Cristina (2001). \"Suponiendo que ese trabajo lo hace la mujer. Organización y valoración de los tiempos de trabajo en la Barcelona de mediados del siglo XIX\". En: Cristina Carrasco (dir.) Tiempos, trabajos y género, Barcelona, Publicacions Universitat Barcelona.

Milkman, Ruth; Reese, Ellen; Roth, Benita (1998). The macrosociology of paid domestic labor. Work and Occupations 25(4)

Nash, Mary (1993). “Identidad cultural de género, discurso de ladomesticidad y la definición del trabajo de las mujeres en la España del siglo XIX”. En: Georges Duby; Michelle Perrot (eds.) Historia de las Mujeres, vol. 4. Madrid, Taurus.

Scott, Joan (1993). \"La mujer trabajadora en el siglo XIX\". En: Georges Duby y Michelle Perrot (eds.) Historia de las Mujeres, vol. 4. Madrid, Taurus.

Schwart, Ruth. (2011). “La ‘revolución industrial’ en el hogar: tecnología doméstica y cambio social en el s.XX”. En: Cristina Carrasco; Carme Borderias y Teresa Torns (eds) El trabajo de cuidados. Historia, teoría y políticas, Madrid, Editorial Catarata.

Tema 3

Beechey, Veronica (1994). “Género y trabajo: replanteamiento de la definición de trabajo”. En: Borderías, C.; Carrasco, C.; Alemany, C.(eds.) Las mujeres y el trabajo, Barcelona, Icaria.

Benería, Lourdes (1981). Reproducción, producción y división sexual del trabajo. Mientras Tanto 6.

Calderano Charlène (2022). La critique féministe-marxiste: du travail domestic aux théories de la reproduction social. Travail, Genere et Sociétés 48: 118-128

Scott, Joan W. (1986). Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis. The American Historical Review 91(5): 1053-1075.

Tema 4

Balbo, Laura (1994). \"La doble presencia\". En: Borderías, C.; Carrasco, C.; Alemany, C.(eds.) Las mujeres y el trabajo, Barcelona, Icaria.

Combes, Danièle y Haicault, Monique (1994). \"Producción y reproducción, relaciones socialesde sexo y clase\" En: Borderías, C.; Carrasco, C.; Alemany, C.(eds.) Las mujeres y el trabajo, Barcelona, Icaria.

Humphries, Jane; Rubery, Jill (1994). \"La autonomía de la reproducción social: su relación con el sistema de producción\". En: Borderías, C.; Carrasco, C.; Alemany, C.(eds.) Las mujeres y el trabajo, Barcelona, Icaria.

Picchio, Antonella (1994). \"El trabajo de reproducción, tema central en el análisis del mercado laboral\". En: Borderías, C.; Carrasco, C.; Alemany, C.(eds.) Las mujeres y el trabajo, Barcelona, Icaria.

Torns, Teresa y Carrasquer, Pilar (1999). El perquè de la reproducció. PAPERS. Revista de Sociologia 59

Tema 5

Díaz-Gorfinkiel, Magdalena & Martínez-Buján, Raquel (2018). Mujeres migrantes y trabajos de cuidados: transformaciones del sector doméstico en España. Panorama social, 27, 105-118.

Ibáñez, Marta; García Mingo, E. & Aguado, Empar (2022). Mujeres en mundos de hombres: segregación ocupacional de género y mecanismos de cierre social de acceso en profesiones de dominación masculina. Sociología del Trabajo, 101, 329-343

Sánchez-Mira, Núria (2017). La brecha salarial y las desigualdades de género en el mercado de trabajo. Una aproximación de aproximaciones teóricas y aportaciones empíricas. Anuario IET de Relaciones Laborales, 4: 87-98.

Torns, Teresa & Recio, Carolina (2012). Las desigualdades en el mercado de trabajo: entre la continuidad y la transformación. Revista de Economía Crítica, 14.  

Torns, Teresa (2019). Ausencias y presencias de las mujeres en el mundo del trabajo. Pasos a la Izquierda, 16.

Tema 6

Ajenjo Cosp, Marc & García Román, Joan (2014). Cambios en el uso del tiempo de las parejas ¿Estamos en el camino hacia una mayor igualdad?. Revista Internacional de Sociología 72(2): 453-476. https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2012.05.28

Carrasquer, Pilar; Torns, Teresa; Tejero, Elisabet & Romero, Alfonso (1998). El trabajo reproductivo. PAPERS. Revista de Sociología, 55.

Durán, Mª Ángeles (2011). El trabajo de cuidado en el marco macroeconómico a: M.A. Durán (dir). El trabajo del cuidado en América Latina y España, Madrid, Fundación Carolina. Documento de trabajo, 54. http://www.fundacioncarolina.es/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/DT54.pdf

Jurado-Serrano, J., Jiménez-Cabello, J., & Becerril-Ruiz, Daniel (2024). ¿Se Habla o no se Habla? La Toma de Decisiones en el Reparto del Trabajo Doméstico. Anduli, 25, 71-92. https://doi.org/10.12795/anduli.2024.i25.04 

Morero-Colom, Sara (2017). The gendered division of housework time: Analysis of time use by type and daily frequency of household tasks. Time & Society, 26, 3–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X15577269

Moreno-Colom, Sara; Ajenjo Cosp, Marc & Borràs Català, Vicent (2018). La masculinización del tiempo dedicado al trabajo doméstico rutinario. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 163, 41-58.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.163.41

Tema 7.

Abril, Paco; Amigot, Patricia; Botía, Carmen; Domínguez-Folgueras, Marta; González, María José; Jurado-Guerrero, Teresa; Lapuerta, Irene; Martín-García, Teresa; Monferrer, Jordi & Seiz, Marta (2015). Ideales igualitarios y planes tradicionales: análisis de parejas primerizas en España. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 150, 3-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.150.3

Botia Morilla, Carmen. (2019). ¿Deshaciendo o reproduciendo prácticas de género? Ambivalencias en madres primerizas y profesionales en España. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 166: 25-44. doi:10.5477/cis/reis.166.25

Cano, Tomás (2018). Los cuidados en la práctica. Clase social y estrategias familiares en el cuidado a mayores con dependencias severas. Revista Internacional De Sociología, 76(3), e103. https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2018.76.3.17.01

Moreno-Colom, Sara; Recio Cáceres, Carolina; Borrás Català, Vicent & Torns Martín, Teresa (2016). Significados e imaginarios de los cuidados de larga duración en España. Una aproximación cualitativa desde los discursos de cuidadores. Papeles del CEIC, 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/pceic.15195

Seiz, Marta (2023). Empleo y cuidado en familias españolas con situaciones de dependencia: dilemas, prácticas y costes.  Revista Internacional De Sociología, 81(1), e225. https://doi.org/10.3989/ris.2023.81.1.21.66

Tema 8.

Agirre Miguélez, Amaia (2014). El reparto de los trabajos domésticos y de cuidados como termómetro de la paridad en las relaciones de pareja. Feminismo/s, 23. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2014.23.05 

Domínguez, Marius; Muñiz, L., & Donoso, G. R. (2019). El treball domèstic i de cures en les parelles de doble ingrés. Anàlisi comparativa entre Espanya, l’Argentina i Xile. Papers: revista de sociologia, 104(2), 337-374.

Ruiz, Sònia; Monge, Georgina; Martí, Bali & paricio, Ana (2023). De la pobresa de temps al temps per a la vida. Aproximacions teòriques i orientacions pràctiques. Dossiers del Temps: Ajuntament de Barcelona.

https://bcnroc.ajuntament.barcelona.cat/jspui/bitstream/11703/132742/1/DOSSIERTEMPS%20190x255mm%20ABCN%20WEB%20OCT23.pdf

Sagastizabal, Marina & Legarreta, Matxalen (2016). La “triple presencia-ausencia”: una propuesta para el estudio del trabajo doméstico-familiar, el trabajo remunerado y la participación sociopolítica. Papeles del CEIC, 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.1387/pceic.15447

Sánchez-Mira, Núria (2021). (Un)doing gender in female breadwinner households: Gender relations and structural change. Gender, Work & Organization, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12775

Vega Rapún, Margarita, Domínguez-Serrano, Mónica. y Gálvez-Múñoz, Lina (2020). The multidimensionality of poverty: Time poverty in Spain. Journal of Time Use Research, 15

 

 

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Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(TE) Theory 51 Catalan second semester afternoon
(PAUL) Classroom practices 51 Catalan second semester afternoon