Not One of the Family : Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada /

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"In Not One of the Family, workers-turned-activists and experts on foreign domestic workers document how the Canadian system has institutionalized unequal treatment of citizen and non-citizen workers. Since the 1940s rights of citizenship for immigrant domestic workers in Canada have declined,...

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Other Authors: Stasiulis, Daiva K. (Editor), Bakan, Abigail B. (Abigail Bess), 1954- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin
Hauswirtschaftsgehilfin
Women household employees.
Women foreign workers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Canada.
Employees de maison > Canada.
Women foreign workers > Canada.
Women household employees > Canada.
Kanada.
Kanada
Canada.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis
  • Foreign domestic worker policy in Canada and the social boundaries of modern citizenship / Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis
  • From mothers of the nation to migrant workers / Sedef Arat-Koc
  • An affair between nations : international relations and the movement of household service workers / Patricia M. Daenzer
  • Little victories and big defeats : the rise and fall of collective bargaining rights for domestic workers in Ontario / Judy Fudge
  • The work at home is not recognized : organizing domestic workers in Montreal / Miriam Elvir
  • We can still fight back : organizing domestic workers in Toronto / Pura M. Velasco.

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