Maid in the U.S.A.

Author(s)

    • Romero, Mary

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Maid in the U.S.A.

Mary Romero

(Perspectives on gender)

Routledge, 1992

  • : pbk

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Maid in the USA

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780415906111

Description

Studies of household labor have largely neglected the employment of domestic workers nor have they sufficiently addressed the issue of unpaid housework. Focusing on both paid and unpaid domestic work, Maid in the USA expands the theoretical understanding of reproductive labor to explain the dynamics of race, class and gender in housework. Through interviews with 25 Chicana private household workers, Mary Romero provides a unique exploration of their working conditions, and the social constraints which shape their personal lives.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415906128

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Mary Romero's Maid in the USA is a history and analysis of Chicana domestic workers in the United States. The author uses her personal experience with domestic work to introduce a study of gender, class and race issues facing domestic workers, and develops the book with information gathered from interviews with Chicana and women from other ethnic groups working as domestics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey 2. Women's Work is Never Done 3. Gender and Class in Domestic Work 4. Domestic Service and Women of Color in the United States 5. Bonds of Sisterhood, Bonds of Oppression 6. The Struggle to Transform Domestic Labor 7. The Housework Dilemma Bibliography Index

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