Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the CaribbeanOffers a look at the sizeable population of women who are domestic workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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Contents
A History of Domestic Service in Spanish America | 17 |
Domestic Service in Jamaica since 1750 | 37 |
Domestic Workers in Buenos Aires | 83 |
What Is Bought and Sold in Domestic Service? | 105 |
Where Is María Now? Former Domestic Workers | 127 |
Domestic Service in the Latin American Fotonovela | 143 |
West Indian Domestic | 171 |
Politics and Programs of Domestic Workers | 221 |
Not Just Another Job | 307 |
Domestic Labor and Domestic Service in Colombia | 323 |
The Education of | 351 |
Their | 363 |
The History of Our Struggle | 373 |
The Autobiography of a Fighter Peru | 389 |
History of the Household Workers Movement in | 407 |
In Their Own Words and Pictures | 417 |
Feminists and Domestic Workers in Rio de Janeiro | 245 |
Organizations for Domestic Workers in | 271 |
The Difficult Road | 291 |
About the Contributors | 483 |
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Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean Elsa Chaney No preview available - 1989 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean Women in the political economy |
| Editors | Elsa Chaney, Mary Garcia Castro |
| Contributor | Margo L. Smith |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Temple University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0877228353, 9780877228356 |
| Length | 486 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / General Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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