Care Work and Class

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