Making Care Count :: a century of gender, race, and paid care work /

Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services̮drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational historie...

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1. Verfasser: Duffy, Mignon
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
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Zusammenfassung:Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services̮drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-175) and index.
ISBN:9780813550770
0813550777
1283369990
9781283369992
9786613369994
6613369993