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

By: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]Copyright date: �2007Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520933866 (e-book).Other title: Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence.Subject(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.DDC classification: 331.4/816404608968079494 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Preface to the 2007 Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- job today -- New World domestic order -- Maid in L.A. -- Finding hard work isn't easy -- It's not what you know -- Formalizing the informal : domestic employment agencies -- Blowups and other unhappy endings -- Inside the job -- Tell men what to do, but don't tell me how -- Go away but stay close enough -- 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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