Pregnant at Work : Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andaya, Elise.

Series:

Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnant women--Employment--New York (State)--New York.

Pregnant women.

Prenatal care--New York (State)--New York.

Prenatal care.

Working poor--Medical care--New York (State)--New York.

Working poor.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Pregnant at Work examines the experiences of pregnant service sector workers in New York City as they try to navigate the time conflicts between precarious low-wage service labor and safety net prenatal care. Through interviews and fieldwork in a prenatal clinic of a public hospital, Elise Andaya vividly describes workers' struggles to maintain expected tempos of labor as their pregnancies progress as well as their efforts to schedule and attend prenatal care, where waiting is a constant factor--a reflection of the pervasive belief that poor people's time is less valuable than that of other people. Pregnant at Work is an examination of the ways in which power and inequalities of race, class, gender, and immigration status are produced and reproduced in the US, including in individual pregnant bodies. The stories of the pregnant workers featured in this book underscore the urgency of movements towards temporal justice and a new politics of care in the twenty-first century." -- Adapted from publisher's description.

"A compelling analysis of time, care, and social inequality told through the lens of pregnant low-wage service workers and their efforts to access safety net prenatal care in New York City"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Time and the Reproduction of Inequality in the Low-wage Service Sector

Service Labor and Temporal Governance in the "City that Never Sleeps"

Working while Pregnant: Conflicts between Labor, Clinical, and Gestational Time

Clinical Time and Racialized Inequality in Safety Net Prenatal Care

Cosmologies of Care: Temporal Justice and the Politics of Value

Epilogue: Time to Care

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Andaya, Elise Pregnant at Work

ISBN:

1-4798-1761-9

OCLC:

1417759374