Dom�estica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; with a new preface.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]Copyright date: �2007Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9780520933866 (e-book)
- Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence
- Hispanic American women -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles
- Nannies -- California -- Los Angeles
- Upper class women -- California -- Los Angeles
- Women foreign workers -- California -- Los Angeles
- Women household employees -- California -- Los Angeles
- Women immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles -- Economic conditions
- Working class women -- California -- Los Angeles
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- HD6072.2.U52 L674 2007eb
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Originally published in 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
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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