- Additional Authors
- Klein, Jennifer, 1967-
- Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 295 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Caring for America (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Caring for America (Online)
- Home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011034402
- OCLC
- ssj0000669546
- Author
Boris, Eileen, 1948-
- Title
Caring for America [electronic resource] : 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.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Klein, Jennifer, 1967-