Title : | Disposable Domestics | Original title : | Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy | Material Type: | printed text | Authors: | Grace Chang, Author ; Mimi Abramovitz, Author of afterword, postface, colophon, etc. | Publisher: | Boston [USA] : South End Press | Publication Date: | 2000 | ISBN (or other code): | RepCha2000 | Languages : | English (eng) | Descriptors: | Immigrant Labour Reproductive Labour
| Keywords: | Reproductive Labour, Immigrant Labour, Migrant Justice | Abstract: | "Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity—in particular women of color of childbearing age—is that of a drain on society. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women's experiences proves just the opposite: that the women who perform our least desirable jobs—as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers—are the most crucial to our economy and society. Yet, Chang also shows, as frequently undocumented and therefore disenfranchised, they are among the most vulnerable and exploited." |
Disposable Domestics = Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy [printed text] / Grace Chang, Author ; Mimi Abramovitz, Author of afterword, postface, colophon, etc. . - Boston (USA) : South End Press, 2000. ISSN : RepCha2000 Languages : English ( eng) Descriptors: | Immigrant Labour Reproductive Labour
| Keywords: | Reproductive Labour, Immigrant Labour, Migrant Justice | Abstract: | "Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity—in particular women of color of childbearing age—is that of a drain on society. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women's experiences proves just the opposite: that the women who perform our least desirable jobs—as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers—are the most crucial to our economy and society. Yet, Chang also shows, as frequently undocumented and therefore disenfranchised, they are among the most vulnerable and exploited." |
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