Bringing Law Home : Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maich, Katherine Eva.

Series:

Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household employees--Legal status, laws, etc--Peru--Lima.

Household employees.

Household employees--Legal status, laws, etc--New York (State)--New York.

Women household employees--Legal status, laws, etc--Peru--Lima.

Women household employees.

Women household employees--Legal status, laws, etc--New York (State)--New York.

Women household employees--Peru--Lima--Social conditions.

Women household employees--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2025.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The personal nature of domestic labor, and its location in the privacy of the employer's home, means that domestic workers have long struggled for equitable and consistent labor rights. The dominant discourse regards the home as separate from work, so envisioning what its legal regulation would look like is remarkably challenging. In Bringing Law Home, Katherine Eva Maich offers a uniquely comparative and historical study of labor struggles for domestic workers in New York City and Lima, Peru. She argues that if the home is to be a place of work then it must also be captured in the legal infrastructures that regulate work. Yet, even progressive labor laws for domestic workers in each city are stifled by historically entrenched patterns of gendered racialization and labor informality. Peruvian law extends to household workers only half of the labor protections afforded to other occupations. In New York City, the law grants negligible protections and deliberately eschews language around immigration. Maich finds that coloniality is deeply embedded in contemporary relations of service, revealing important distinctions in how we understand power, domination, and inequality in the home and the workplace"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

One. Conceptualizing the Home as a Site of Work, as a Site of Law

Two. Architecture of Access: Race, Space, the City, and the Peruvian Colonial Imaginary

Three. Colonial Domesticity: Constructing Insider Vulnerability in Lima's Homes

Four. From Slavery to Service: Continuing Struggles to Regulate Domestic Worker Rights in the United States

Five. Immigrant Domesticity: Producing Outsider Vulnerability in New York City

Six. Toward New Sites of Labor, Toward New Labor Rights

Methodological Appendix

Comparative Law Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Series Page

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5036-4324-7

OCLC:

1525621890