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035 _a(OCoLC)1079399395
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082 0 4 _a331.481640986632
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _ade Casanova, Erynn Masi
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDust and Dignity :
_bDomestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador /
_cErynn Masi de Casanova.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (192 p.) :
_b1 map, 7 charts
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tForeword --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. In Search of the Ideal Worker --
_t2. Embodied Inequality --
_t3. Informed but Insecure (Written in Collaboration with Leila Rodríguez) --
_t4. Pathways through Poverty --
_t5. Like Any Other Job? --
_tConclusion --
_tEpilogue --
_tAppendix: Research Methods --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhat makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? Erynn Masi de Casanova's case study, based partly on collaborative research conducted with Ecuador's pioneer domestic workers' organization, examines three reasons for persistent exploitation. First, the tasks of social reproduction are devalued. Second, informal work arrangements escape regulation. And third, unequal class relations are built into this type of employment. Accessible to advocates and policymakers as well as academics, this book provides both theoretical discussions about domestic work and concrete ideas for improving women's lives.Drawing on workers' stories of lucha, trabajo, and sacrificio—struggle, work, and sacrifice—Dust and Dignity offers a new take on an old occupation. From the intimate experience of being a body out of place in an employer's home, to the common work histories of Ecuadorian women in different cities, to the possibilities for radical collective action at the national level, Casanova shows how and why women do this stigmatized and precarious work and how they resist exploitation in the search for dignified employment. From these searing stories of workers' lives, Dust and Dignity identifies patterns in domestic workers' experiences that will be helpful in understanding the situation of workers elsewhere and offers possible solutions for promoting and ensuring workers' rights that have relevance far beyond Ecuador.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aInformal sector (Economics)
_zEcuador
_zGuayaquil.
650 0 _aWomen household employees
_zEcuador
_zGuayaquil.
650 0 _aWomen migrant labor
_zEcuador
_zGuayaquil.
650 0 _aWork environment
_zEcuador
_zGuayaquil.
650 4 _aLabor History.
650 4 _aLatin American & Caribbean Studies.
650 4 _aSociology & Social Science.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
_2bisacsh
653 _aEcuador, domestic work, informal employment, carework, labor, Sociology, gender studies, labor studies, Latin American studies.
700 1 _aSalazar, Maximina
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501739477?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501739477
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