| Description |
1 online resource (175 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Domestic Workers in Latin America Today -- The Global Politics of Care Work -- The Dynamics of Paid Domestic Work as an Occupation -- The History of Domestic Service in Latin America -- Paid Domestic Work in Latin America Today -- Laws on Paid Domestic Work -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Overcoming Elite Resistance -- Outcomes: Reforms and Reform Attempts Across Countries -- Case Selection of Bolivia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Chile |
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Context, Framing, and Alternative Explanations -- Explaining Reform: Coalition Building, Visibility, and Agenda Setting -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Working in Chronic Informality -- Social Security Protections and the Prevalence of Labor Violations -- Explaining Government Efforts to Protect Domestic Workers' Labor Rights -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Bolivia and Costa Rica: Social Mobilization and Reform from the Bottom Up -- Bolivia: Equal Rights as Indigenous Justice -- Costa Rica: Extending Human Rights -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 5 Uruguay and Chile: Basic Universalism Versus Top-Down Incrementalism -- Uruguay: Solidarity and Equal Rights for Everyone -- Chile -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Industrial relations -- Latin America
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Household employees -- Latin America -- Social conditions
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Labor movement -- Latin America -- History -- 21st century
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Equality -- Latin America
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Social classes -- Latin America
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Equality.
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Household employees -- Social conditions.
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Industrial relations.
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Labor movement.
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Social classes.
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Latin America.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271068688 |
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027106868X |
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