Caring Beyond Borders: Assessing Home Care Policies and Workers’ Rights in Europe and the Americas (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 360) - Hardcover

 
9789004758315: Caring Beyond Borders: Assessing Home Care Policies and Workers’ Rights in Europe and the Americas (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 360)

Synopsis

Care Beyond Borders offer new theoretical insights, finely grained assessments tools, and detailed empirical case studies to explain variegated patterns of protections for paid domestic workers, their relation to home care systems, within and across countries over time.

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About the Author

Heidi Gottfried is a retired Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wayne State University and author of Gender, Work and Economy. Her publications span the political economy of care, Japanese capitalism, and gender, migration and work in comparative perspective.

Eileen Boris is Hull Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara and co-author of Caring for America. She writes on the home as a workplace, intimate labors, the racialized gender state, and domestic workers’ struggles for freedom, past and present.

Nadya Araujo Guimarães is Senior Professor at the Sociology Department, University of São Paulo, and author of Care and Care Workers: A Latin American Perspective. Her body of research examines the care economy, care workers’ rights, and labor market theories.

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