Doméstica

Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Secondary Author: Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
ISBN: 0520214730

"Hondagneu-Sotelo challenges the reader to rethink the organization of caring work, the roles of race and immigrant status in the structure of domestic work, the importance of regulations, and the need for legal and personal recognition of the rights and human dignity of each worker. This book is an important contribution to our understanding of work and family among immigrant Latina women and also among the families that employ them."—Bonnie Thornton Dill, author of Across the Boundaries of Race and Class: An exploration of work and family among Black female Domestic Servants"Through brilliantly nuanced portraits of housekeepers and their employers, Hondagneu-Sotelo tells a neglected story of growing importance, spotlighting the relation of mistress to maid."—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Time Bind"Doméstica is a pathbreaking study. It opens our eyes to the hidden world of transnational care-work and calls on us to shape domestic and international policies that will bri

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 2001-04-26

Subjects: Business & Economics / Labor, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Citizenship/Immigration (CIIM))