Making Care Count : A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work /

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Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services̮drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational historie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Duffy, Mignon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Könsarbetsdelning > Förenta staterna.
Vårdyrken.
Social service > Förenta staterna.
Ethnische Gruppe.
Geschlecht.
Beruf.
Dienstleistung.
Dienstleistungssektor.
Social service.
Sexual division of labor.
Service industries workers.
Household employees.
Caregivers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
Race.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
Travail domestique.
Puericulture.
Employes de maison > États-Unis.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel > États-Unis.
Racial Groups
Sex Factors
Household Work
Child Care
Caregivers
Sex factors in disease.
Housekeeping.
Chores.
Child care.
Children > Health and hygiene.
Sexual division of labor > United States.
Social service > United States.
Household employees > United States.
Caregivers > United States.
Service industries workers > United States.
USA.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
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Sumario:Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services̮drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (204 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813549613

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