Domestica - Immigrant Workers Cleaning Caring in Shadows of Affluence, With a

Informationen zum Autor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Klappentext " Doméstica is a pathbreaking study. It opens our eyes to the hidden world of transnational care-work and calls on us to shape domestic and international policies that will bring basic principles of human rights and social justice into that world. Everyone who is concerned about care and equality should read it."—Lucie White, Professor, Harvard Law School "Hondagneu-Sotelo challenges the reader to rethink the organization of caring work, the roles of race and immigrant status in the structure of domestic work, the importance of regulations, and the need for legal and personal recognition of the rights and human dignity of each worker."—Bonnie Thornton Dill, author of Across the Boundaries of Race and Class Zusammenfassung Highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the 2007 Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments PART ONE THE JOB TODAY 1. New World Domestic Order 2. Maid in L.A. PART TWO FINDING HARD WORK ISN'T EASY 3· It's Not What You Know ... 4· Formalizing the Informal: Domestic Employment Agencies 5· Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings PART THREE INSIDE THE JOB 6. Tell Me What to Do! But Don't Tell Me How 7· Go Away ... But Stay Close Enough 8. Cleaning Up a Dirty Business Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette A. Hondagneu-Sotelo
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2007
• EAN: 9780520251717
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25171-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Central America, Mexico and Central America, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples