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Author:

Chang, Grace, 1964-

Title:

Disposable domestics : immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang ; foreword by Mimi Abramovitz.

Publisher:

South End Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xviii, 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women alien labor--United States.
Women domestics--United States.
Alien labor, Asian--United States.
Alien labor, Latin American--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred -- Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother -- The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited -- Global exchange : the World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the trade in migrant women -- Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed" -- Gatekeeping and housekeeping.

ISBN:

9780896086180 (cloth)
0896086186 (cloth)
9780896086173 (paper)
0896086178 (paper)

LCCN:

99462383

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)