Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women household employees--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Women household employees.

Nannies--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Nannies.

Hispanic American women--Employment--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Hispanic American women.

Women foreign workers--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Women foreign workers.

Women immigrants--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area--Economic conditions.

Women immigrants.

Working class women--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Working class women.

Upper class women--California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Upper class women.

Hispanic American women--Employment.

Women immigrants--Economic conditions.

California--Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Physical Description:

xxv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.

Summary:

As American women have entered the labour force in greater numbers, domestic work has largely become the work of immigrant women of colour. This volume highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American who care for other people's children and homes.

Contents:

pt. 1. The Job Today. 1. New World Domestic Order. 2. Maid in L.A.

pt. 2. 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

pt. 3. 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:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0520214730

9780520214736

0520226437

9780520226432

9790520226431

OCLC:

45223553

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