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Caring for America : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state
- Title
- Caring for America : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein.
- Author
- Boris, Eileen, 1948-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Klein, Jennifer, 1967-
- Description
- xxii, 295 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Neither nurses nor maids : New Deal origins -- Rehabilitative missions : social welfare and medical models of home care -- Caring for the Great Society : the war on poverty discovers the service sector -- Welfare wars, seventies style : from disability rights to Neo-Liberalism -- Take us out of slavery : household employees become home attendants -- The union is us : organizing in the age of Reagan -- We were the invisible workforce : the triumph of SEIU -- Epilogue : rethinking home care : respect, dignity, and social rights.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-5047
- ISBN
- 9780195329117
- 0195329112
- LCCN
- 2011034402
- 40020875301
- OCLC
- 227016864
- Author
- Boris, Eileen, 1948-
- Title
- Caring for America : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Klein, Jennifer, 1967-
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40020875301
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-5047