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Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

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Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State - Boris, Eileen, and Klein, Jennifer
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Caring for America is the definitive history of care work and its surprisingly central role in the American labor movement and class politics from the New Deal to the present. Authors Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein create a narrative of the home care industry that interweaves four histories--the evolution of the modern American welfare state; the rise of the service sector-based labor movement; the persistence of race, class, and gender-based inequality; and the aging of the American population--and considers their impact ...

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Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State 2015, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199378586

Trade paperback

Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State 2012, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195329117

Hardcover