| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index. |
| Contents |
"Look deep in your hearts": making a global domestic workers' movement -- "Dignity overdue": tracing a movement -- Getting "on the map": global policy as an activist stage -- "First to work; last to sleep": central policy debates -- "My mother was a kitchen girl": mobilizing strategies among domestic workers -- "Put yourself in her shoes": NGO, union, and feminist allies -- "A little bit of liberation": moving beyond rights. |
| Summary |
From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au pairs, and other care workers are most often 'off the books,' working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal protections or benefits such as union membership, health care, vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their employers for room and board as well as their immigration status, creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade's worth of research, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Household employees -- Labor unions -- International cooperation.
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Household employees -- Labor unions. |
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International cooperation. |
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Household employees -- Civil rights.
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Household employees. |
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Civil rights. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fish, Jennifer Natalie. Domestic workers of the world unite! New York : New York University Press, [2017] 9781479848676 (DLC) 2017003622 (OCoLC)961205902 |
| ISBN |
9781479827442 (electronic book) |
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1479827444 (electronic book) |
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9781479848676 |
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1479848670 |
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9781479877935 |
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147987793X |
| Standard No. |
10.18574/9781479827442 |
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