Caring for america : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein.
"In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant...
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| Main Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Summary: | "In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199378584 9780199378586 |