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UNINA9910457215903321 |
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Autore |
Duffy Mignon |
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Titolo |
Making care count [[electronic resource] ] : a century of gender, race, and paid care work / / Mignon Duffy |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2011 |
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1-283-36999-0 |
9786613369994 |
0-8135-5077-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Service industries workers - United States |
Caregivers - United States |
Household employees - United States |
Social service - United States |
Sexual division of labor - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Conceptualizing care -- Domestic workers: many hands, heavy work -- Transforming nurturance, creating expert care -- Managing nurturant care in the new economy -- Doing the dirty work -- Making care count. |
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There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared, and people who are elderly, ill, or disabled need care. Day in, day out, these responsibilities can involve both monotonous drudgery and untold rewards for those performing them, whether they are family members, friends, or paid workers. These are jobs that cannot be outsourced, because they involve the most intimate spaces of our everyday lives--our homes, our bodies, and our families. Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services--drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the |
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social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities. Debunking popular understandings of how we came to be in a "care crisis," this book stands apart as an historical quantitative study in a literature crowded with contemporary, qualitative studies, proposing well-developed policy approaches that grow out of the theoretical and empirical arguments. |
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UNINA9910784822203321 |
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Autore |
Julios Christina |
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Contemporary British identity [[electronic resource] ] : English language, migrants, and public discourse / / Christina Julios |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2008 |
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0-8153-8818-7 |
1-351-16120-2 |
1-351-16119-9 |
1-351-16118-0 |
1-281-24123-7 |
0-7546-8544-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Studies in migration and diaspora |
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National characteristics, British - History - 20th century |
Group identity - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Multiculturalism - Great Britain |
Ethnology - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
British - Ethnic identity |
Great Britain Civilization 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-192) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; PART 1 LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY; 1 Introduction; 2 English Language Colonisation, De-Colonisation and Globalisation; 3 Ethnic Linguistic |
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Minorities; PART 2 MIGRANTS AND THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE; 4 1900s-1950s: A Discourse of Laissez-faire - Preserving the Status Quo; 5 1960s-1980s: A Discourse of Multiculturalism - Living with Difference; 6 1990s-2000s: A Discourse of Integration - Sharing Common Values; PART 3 CONCLUSION; 7 Contemporary British Identity - Over a Hundred Years in the Making; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K |
LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Against the background of an increasingly diverse British society, this book traces the evolution of British identity in the twentieth century. It raises fundamental questions about who we are as a nation and how we got here, and provides clues as to the direction the prevailing public discourse on British identity is likely to take in the twenty-first century. |
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