Doméstica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence / / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; with a new preface |
Autore | Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.4/816404608968079494 |
Soggetto topico |
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 Angeles |
Soggetto non controllato |
american immigration
capitalism central american women communism higher education human rights immigrant domestic workers immigration industrial issues labor policies labor latinx studies los angeles mexican american mexican feminism migrant workers migration new preface union policy university textbook |
ISBN | 0-520-93386-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti | Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790539903321 |
Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette
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Janitors, street vendors, and activists [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley / / Christian Zlolniski |
Autore | Zlolniski Christian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.6/272079473 |
Soggetto topico |
Mexicans - Employment - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Foreign workers, Mexican - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Unskilled labor - California - Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
california economy california community politics economic analysis ethnographers ethnographic study globalism immigrant experience janitors labor policies labor politics labor practices latino immigrants low wage jobs mexican americans mexican immigrants mexico nonfiction study regional study silicon valley social activists street vendors subcontracting technological developments united states us economy working conditions |
ISBN |
9786612772009
0-520-93917-4 1-282-77200-7 1-4237-4553-1 1-59875-927-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley -- 2. The Subcontracting of Mexican Janitors in the High-Tech Industry -- 3. Working in the Informal Economy -- 4. Mexican Families in Santech -- 5. Community Politics in the Barrio -- Conclusion: Subproletarians in a Postindustrial Economy -- Epilogue: After the Dot-Com Demise -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783670803321 |
Zlolniski Christian
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When mandates work : raising labor standards at the local level / / edited by Michael Reich, Ken Jacobs, Miranda Dietz |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.12/042 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ReichMichael
JacobsKen <1962-> DietzMiranda <1983-> |
Soggetto topico |
Labor policy - California - San Francisco
Labor laws and legislation - California - San Francisco Wages - Government policy - California - San Francisco Employee rights - California - San Francisco |
Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
america business economics california company culture federal policymakers health coverage improved wages insurance job creation labor policies labor scholars labor standards labor studies local mandates local policymakers local workers modern labor market public policy retrospective san francisco social historians state policymakers united states wage laws worker benefits worker compensation worker productivity worker wages working class |
ISBN |
0-520-27814-3
0-520-95746-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part I. The pay mandates -- part II. The benefit mandates -- part III. Making the mandates work. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790757003321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
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When mandates work : raising labor standards at the local level / / edited by Michael Reich, Ken Jacobs, Miranda Dietz |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.12/042 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ReichMichael
JacobsKen <1962-> DietzMiranda <1983-> |
Soggetto topico |
Labor policy - California - San Francisco
Labor laws and legislation - California - San Francisco Wages - Government policy - California - San Francisco Employee rights - California - San Francisco |
Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
america business economics california company culture federal policymakers health coverage improved wages insurance job creation labor policies labor scholars labor standards labor studies local mandates local policymakers local workers modern labor market public policy retrospective san francisco social historians state policymakers united states wage laws worker benefits worker compensation worker productivity worker wages working class |
ISBN |
0-520-27814-3
0-520-95746-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part I. The pay mandates -- part II. The benefit mandates -- part III. Making the mandates work. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813885603321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
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