Domestica Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, with a New Preface

Name: Domestica Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, with a New Preface
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ISBN: 9780520251717

ISBN-10: 0520251717

ISBN-13: 9780520251717

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

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In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface to the 2007 Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgments



The Job Today



New World Domestic Order



Maid in L.A.



Finding Hard Work Isn't Easy



It's Not What You Know...



Formalizing the Informal: Domestic Employment Agencies



Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings



Inside the Job



Tell Me What to Do, But Don't Tell Me How



Go Away...But Stay Close Enough



Cleaning Up a Dirty Business


Notes


References


Index