Title Domestic economies : women, work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles / Susanna Rosenbaum

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Producing in/visibility in Los Angeles -- Middle-class dreaming and the limits of "Americanness" -- Making mothers count -- Organizing, motherhood, and the meanings of (domestic) work -- Dreaming American Summary Susanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the ""American Dream, "" underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized and gendered while exposing how pursuing it lies at the intersection of motherhood and domestic labor Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Hispanic American women -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles Women household employees -- California -- Los Angeles Women foreign workers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Working class women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Middle class women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions American Dream. Motherhood -- California -- Los Angeles BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. American Dream. Hispanic American women -- Employment. Women foreign workers -- Social conditions. Women household employees. Working class women -- Social conditions. American dream Middle class women -- Social conditions. Lateinamerikanische Einwanderin Motherhood. Hausgehilfin Mutterschaft Soziale Situation Sozialanthropologie California -- Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Calif. Form Electronic book LC no. 2017040972 ISBN 9780822372264 0822372266

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