Caring for america : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state /
Boris, Eileen, 1948-
Caring for america : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein. - xxii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making the Private Public -- Neither Nurses nor Maids -- Rehabilitative Missions -- Caring for the Great Society -- Welfare Wars, Seventies Style -- "Take Us Out of Slavery" -- "The Union Is Us" -- "We Were the Invisible Workforce" -- Challenging Care. Introduction: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Epilogue:
"In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy."--Publisher's website.
0199378584 9780199378586
Home health aides--United States
Home health aides--Labor unions--United States
362.14
Caring for america : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein. - xxii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making the Private Public -- Neither Nurses nor Maids -- Rehabilitative Missions -- Caring for the Great Society -- Welfare Wars, Seventies Style -- "Take Us Out of Slavery" -- "The Union Is Us" -- "We Were the Invisible Workforce" -- Challenging Care. Introduction: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Epilogue:
"In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy."--Publisher's website.
0199378584 9780199378586
Home health aides--United States
Home health aides--Labor unions--United States
362.14