Care Work and Class Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America

Care Work and Class Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America

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Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-cl...

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1. Verfasser: Blofield, Merike (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: University Park, PA Penn State University Press [2021]
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
Equality > Latin America
Household employees > Social conditions > Latin America
Household employees > Latin America > Social conditions
Industrial relations > Latin America
Labor movement > History > 21st century > Latin America > Latin America
Labor movement > Latin America > History > 21st century
Social classes > Latin America
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
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Zusammenfassung:Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class families and enabled well-to-do women to enter professional labor markets without having to negotiate household and care work with their male partners. While elite resistance to reform has been widespread, during the past fifteen years a handful of countries have instituted equal rights. In Care Work and Class, Merike Blofield examines how domestic workers' mobilization, strategic alliances, and political windows of opportunity, mostly linked to left-wing executive and legislative allies, can lead to improved rights even in a region as unequal as Latin America. Blofield also examines the conditions that lead to better enforcement of rights
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (200 pages)
ISBN:9780271058894
DOI:10.1515/9780271058894

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