| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface: The Personal Is Prologue; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Making the Private Public; 1: Neither Nurses nor Maids; 2: Rehabilitative Missions; 3: Caring for the Great Society; 4: Welfare Wars, Seventies Style; 5: "Take Us Out of Slavery"; 6: "The Union Is Us"; 7: "We Were the Invisible Workforce"; Epilogue: Challenging Care; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
This title is the definitive history of care work and its surprisingly central role in the American labour movement and class politics from the New Deal to the present. The authors create a narrative of the home care industry that interweaves four histories and considers their impact on today's most dynamic social movements |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Apr. 19, 2012) |
| Subject |
Home health aides -- United States
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Home health aides -- Labor unions -- United States
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Home health aides.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klein, Jennifer, 1967-
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| ISBN |
0199949492 |
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9780199949496 |
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9780199939053 |
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0199939055 |
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