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Domestica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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