Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

by Pierrette A Hondagneu-Sotelo

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As American women have entered the labour force in greater numbers, the traditional work of wives and mothers - cleaning houses and caring for children - has gradually moved into the global marketplace. Paid domestic work has largely become the work of disenfranchised immigrant women of colour. This volume highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.
  • ISBN10 0520226437
  • ISBN13 9780520226432
  • Publish Date 26 April 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 December 2007
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 309
  • Language English