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Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence
- Title
- Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo.
- Author
- Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HD6072.2.U52 L674 2001 | Off-site | |
| Text | Request in advance | HD6072.2.U52 L674 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxv, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence
- Subject
- Women household employees > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Nannies > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Hispanic American women > Employment > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Women foreign workers > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Women immigrants > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area > Economic conditions
- Working class women > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Upper class women > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- Hispanic or Latino
- Economics
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-278) and index.
- Contents
- 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 Me What to Do, But Don't Tell Me How. 7. Go Away...But Stay Close Enough. 8. Cleaning Up a Dirty Business.
- ISBN
- 0520214730 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520226437 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00051171
- OCLC
- ocm45223553
- SCSB-4123569
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries