Domestic Economies : Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles /

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Susanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the ""American Dream, "" underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenbaum, Susanna, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Sozialanthropologie
Soziale Situation
Mutterschaft
Hausgehilfin
Lateinamerikanische Einwanderin
American dream
Working class women > Social conditions.
Women household employees.
Women foreign workers > Social conditions.
Motherhood.
Middle class women > Social conditions.
Hispanic American women > Employment.
American Dream.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Maternite > Californie > Los Angeles.
Rêve americain.
Femmes de la classe moyenne > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales.
Employees de maison > Californie > Los Angeles.
Americaines d'origine latino-americaine > Travail > Californie > Los Angeles.
Motherhood > California > Los Angeles.
Middle class women > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Working class women > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Women foreign workers > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
Women household employees > California > Los Angeles.
Hispanic American women > Employment > California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Calif.
California > Los Angeles.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Susanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the ""American Dream, "" underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized and gendered while exposing how pursuing it lies at the intersection of motherhood and domestic labor
Physical Description:1 online resource (244 pages).
ISBN:9780822372264

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