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Importantly, the technological feature in the production function of greedy jobs leads to hourly wages that exponentially increase with work hours. The production function of greedy jobs exhibits a low degree of labor substitutability, making it costly to the firm to give a worker control over the amount and the timing of work. As a result, having one partner specializing in a greedy job and another specializing in a standard job is the efficient outcome that maximizes a couple's income (while still allowing taking care of family responsibilities). In David Autor, Frank Levy, and Richard Murnane's ([2]) terminology, these jobs are cognitive and routine-task intensive jobs. [Extracted from the article]

Professor Blackett does not gloss over the challenges in treating domestic work like any other work while addressing the specificity of the domestic work in the private home. Professor Blackett's book, I Everyday Transgressions, i tackles this invisibility head on and provides a much-needed conceptual framing that lays bare the inequities faced by domestic workers and the transnational movement for change. We cannot simply apply industrial workplace models to the domestic work relationship but at the same time, domestic workers must be treated as any other worker. [Extracted from the article]