Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.
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.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2001]
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Table of 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.