Domestica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; with a new preface.

By: Hondagneu-Sotelo, PierretteMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520933866Other title: Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluenceSubject(s): 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 AngelesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Domestica.DDC classification: 331.4/816404608968079494 LOC classification: HD6072.2.U52 | L674 2007Online resources: Click to View
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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Originally published in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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