Domestica : : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; with a new preface.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley : : University of California Press,, [2007] 2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Originally published in 2001. |
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Table of 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.