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Author Chang, Grace, 1964-

Title Disposable domestics : immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang ; foreword by Mimi Abramovitz.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.48164046 C362d    ---  Available
Description xviii, 235 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred -- Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother -- The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited -- Global exchange : the World Bank, "welfare reform," and the trade in migrant women -- Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed" -- Gatekeeping and housekeeping.
Subject Women foreign workers.
Women household employees.
Foreign workers, Asian.
Foreign workers, Latin American.
ISBN 0896086178 (paper)
0896086186 (cloth)

 
    
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