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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813550770 0813550777 1283369990 9781283369992 9786613369994 6613369993 |