Care Work and Class

Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers’ mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-04-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271053288

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Mer om författaren

Merike Blofield is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. Her edited volume The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America was published by Penn State University Press in 2011.

Recensioner i media

“As Blofield incisively chronicles, until recently, household servants and nannies, who compose 15 percent of the economically active female population in Latin America, were systematically denied basic labor protections. But in country after country, their advocates have improved their lot by making good use of democratic processes.”—Richard Feinberg Foreign Affairs

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction1 Domestic Workers in Latin America Toda2 Overcoming Elite Resistance3 Working in Chronic Informality4 Bolivia and Costa Rica: Social Mobilization and Reform from the Bottom Up5 Uruguay and Chile: Basic Universalism Versus Top-Down IncrementalismConclusion NotesReferencesIndex