Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
About the Author:\ Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California
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"Doméstica is a pathbreaking study. It opens our eyes to the hidden world of transnational care-work and calls on us to shape domestic and international policies that will bring basic principles of human rights and social justice into that world. Everyone who is concerned about care and equality should read it."—Lucie White, Professor, Harvard Law School "Hondagneu-Sotelo challenges the reader to rethink the organization of caring work, the roles of race and immigrant status in the structure of domestic work, the importance of regulations, and the need for legal and personal recognition of the rights and human dignity of each worker."—Bonnie Thornton Dill, author of Across the Boundaries of Race and Class Los Angeles Times Opens a rare window into the lives of workers who often speak little English and seldom converse with their employers about anything except housework.
Preface to the 2007 Edition ixPreface to the First Edition xviiAcknowledgments xxxiThe Job TodayNew World Domestic Order 3Maid in L.A. 29Finding Hard Work Isn't EasyIt's Not What You Know... 63Formalizing the Informal: Domestic Employment Agencies 92Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings 114Inside the JobTell Me What to Do, But Don't Tell Me How 137Go Away...But Stay Close Enough 171Cleaning Up a Dirty Business 210Notes 245References 269Index 279
\ Los Angeles TimesOpens a rare window into the lives of workers who often speak little English and seldom converse with their employers about anything except housework.\ \
