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Care work and class : domestic workers' struggle for equal rights in Latin America / Merike Blofield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blofield, Merike, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations--Latin America.
- Industrial relations.
- Household employees--Latin America--Social conditions.
- Household employees.
- Labor movement--Latin America--History--21st century.
- Labor movement.
- Equality--Latin America.
- Equality.
- Social classes--Latin America.
- Social classes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Examines the movement for labor reform among domestic workers in Latin America. Explores how domestic workers' mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity can lead to improved rights"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- Introduction
- Domestic workers in Latin America today
- Overcoming elite resistance
- Working in chronic informality
- Bolivia and Costa Rica : social mobilization and reform from the bottom up
- Uruguay and Chile : basic universalism versus top-down incrementalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-169) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271068688
- 027106868X
- 9780271055541
- 0271055545
- 9780271058955
- 0271058951
- 9780271058894
- 0271058897
- 9780271053912
- 0271053917
- OCLC:
- 784958290
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