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Care Work and Class:

Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America
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Examines the movement for labor reform among domestic workers in Latin America. Explores how domestic workers' mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity can lead to improved rights.


Contents

List of Tables

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction

1 Domestic Workers in Latin America Toda

2 Overcoming Elite Resistance

3 Working in Chronic Informality

4 Bolivia and Costa Rica: Social Mobilization and Reform from the Bottom Up

5 Uruguay and Chile: Basic Universalism Versus Top-Down Incrementalism

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index


“[Care Work and Class] is a fascinating book that provides an important perspective to those of us who are immersed in US-based scholarship, which tends to focus on Latin American domestic workers primarily in their roles as an immigrant labor force here in the United States.”

—Mignon Duffy, Signs

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