Care Work and Class : : Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America / / Merike Blofield.
Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-cl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- 1 Domestic Workers in Latin America Today
- 2 Overcoming Elite Resistance
- 3 Working in Chronic Informality
- 4 Bolivia and Costa Rica Social Mobilization and Reform from the Bottom Up
- 5 Uruguay and Chile Basic Universalism Versus Top-Down Incrementalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index