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Caring for America : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein.
Van Pelt Library RA645.35 .B67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boris, Eileen, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home health aides--United States.
- Home health aides.
- Home health aides--Labor unions--United States.
- Labor unions.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Neither nurses nor maids : New Deal origins
- Rehabilitative missions : social welfare and medical models of home care
- Caring for the Great Society : the war on poverty discovers the service sector
- Welfare wars, seventies style : from disability rights to Neo-Liberalism
- Take us out of slavery : household employees become home attendants
- The union is us : organizing in the age of Reagan
- We were the invisible workforce : the triumph of SEIU
- Epilogue : rethinking home care : respect, dignity, and social rights.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195329117
- 0195329112
- OCLC:
- 227016864
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