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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136995103321

Autore

Chang Grace

Titolo

Disposable domestics : immigrant women workers in the global economy / / Grace Chang ; foreword by Ai-Jen Poo and Mimi Abramovitz ; afterword by Alicia Garza ; cover art by Favianna Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymarket Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-60846-529-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

331.4/8164046

Soggetti

Women foreign workers - United States

Women household employees - United States

Foreign workers, Asian - United States

Foreign workers, Latin American - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword to the 2016 Edition; Foreword to the 2000 Edition; Preface to the 2016 Edition; Introduction; Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred; Undocumented Latinas; The Nanny Visa; Global Exchange; Immigrants and Workfare Workers; Gatekeeping and Housekeeping; Afterword to the 2016 Edition; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.