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Caring for america : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2012Description: xxii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199378584
  • 9780199378586
Other title:
  • Home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.14 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 362.14 BOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A518954B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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