Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence /

Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; with a new preface.

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Main Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Hispanic American women > Employment > California > Los Angeles.
Nannies > California > Los Angeles.
Upper class women > California > Los Angeles.
Women foreign workers > California > Los Angeles.
Women household employees > California > Los Angeles.
Women immigrants > California > Los Angeles > Economic conditions.
Working class women > California > Los Angeles.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the 2007 Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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 men what to do, but don't tell me how
  • 7. Go away but stay close enough
  • 8. Cleaning up a dirty business
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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