Dilemma of the Kinship and Formality Relationship between Employer and Domestic Worker in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Abstract: Labor relations
between employers and domestic workers is one of the very old form of
relationship that is influenced by cultural and social development of society.
The purpose of this study to determine the forms of employment relationships of
kinship and formal working relationships and form working relationships between
them are preferred by employers in Yogyakarta. The theory used in this study
uses the concept of patron-client (Scott, 1985) and patriarchy (Delaney, 2005)
to explain the two forms of the employment relationship in the domestic sphere.
This research used post-positivist paradigm with mixed methods, quantitative
and qualitative (Guba & Lincoln, 1997). The results showed kinship
relationships occur in household domestic worker, working full time and living
in the employer’s home. Formal relationship occurs in the working relationship
of domestic workers work part time (fill-in), a special work as pramurukti and/
baby sitter. Generally, employers prefer that is kinship relationship because
of the perspective domestic worker are part of the family. In contrast,
domestic worker prefer to work part-time, work-specific and do not live in
private homes because more wages and freely in the work. Employers and domestic
workers have individual rationality in determining the form of employment
relationship. In fact, kinship relationships wane and increasing the quantity
of formal relations, characterized by the use of part-time domestic worker are
increasingly numerous. In essence, kinship relationships and have in common
that formal work status and low wages.
Author: Muryanti
Journal Code: jpsosiologigg150028
