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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Édition:2nd ed.
Sujets:
Women household employees > California > Los Angeles.
Nannies > California > Los Angeles.
Hispanic American women > Employment > California > Los Angeles.
Women foreign workers > California > Los Angeles.
Women immigrants > California > Los Angeles > Economic conditions.
Working class women > California > Los Angeles.
Upper class women > California > Los Angeles.
Employées de maison > Californie > Los Angeles.
Bonnes d'enfants > Californie > Los Angeles.
Américaines d'origine latino-américaine > Travail > Californie > Los Angeles.
Travailleuses étrangères > Californie > Los Angeles.
Immigrantes > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions économiques.
Femmes de la classe supérieure > Californie > Los Angeles.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Hispanic American women > Employment
Nannies
Upper class women
Women foreign workers
Women household employees
Women immigrants > Economic conditions
Working class women
California > Los Angeles
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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