Workers like all the rest of them : domestic service and the rights of labor in twentieth-century Chile / Elizabeth Quay Hutchison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. (Elizabeth Quay), author.

Contributor:

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household employees.

Women household employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 204 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Workers Like All the Rest of Them

Place of Publication:

2021.

Durham : Duke University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Workers Like All the Rest of Them, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison recounts the long struggle for domestic workers’ recognition and rights in Chile across the twentieth century. Hutchison traces the legal and social history of domestic workers and their rights, outlining their transition from slavery to servitude. For most of the twentieth century, domestic service remained one of the key “underdeveloped” sectors in Chile’s modernizing economy. Hutchison argues that the predominance of women in that underpaid, underregulated labor sector provides one key to persistent gender and class inequality. Through archival research, firsthand accounts, and interviews with veteran activists, Hutchison challenges domestic workers’ exclusion from Chilean history and reveals how and under what conditions they mobilized for change, forging alliances with everyone from Catholic Church leaders and legislators to feminists and political party leaders. Hutchison contributes to a growing global conversation among activists and scholars about domestic workers’ rights, providing a lens for understanding how the changing structure of domestic work and worker activism has both perpetuated and challenged forms of ethnic, gender, and social inequality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Empleadas Lost and Found

Chapter 1 From Servants to Workers in Chile

Chapter 2 Fighting Exclusion Domestic Workers and Their Allies Demand Labor Legislation, 1923-1945

Chapter 3 Rites and Rights: Catholic Association by and for Domestic Workers, 1947–1964

Chapter 4 Domestic Workers’ Movements in Reform and Revolution, 1967–1973

Chapter 5 Women’s Rights, Workers’ Rights: Military Rule and Domestic Worker Activism

Conclusion: Inequities of Service, Past and Present

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version of record.

ISBN:

9781478022183

1478022183