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Regulating for decent work : new directions in labour market regulation /

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Regulating for decent work : new directions in labour market regulation /

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Workers Like All the Rest of Them : Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile / by Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. (Elizabeth Quay)

Table of Contents: “…Empleadas Lost and Found -- From Servants to Workers in Chile -- Fighting Exclusion: Domestic Workers and Allies Demand Labor Legislation, 1923-1945 -- Rites and Rights: Catholic Association by and for Domestic Workers, 1947-1964 -- Domestic Workers' Movements in Reform and Revolution, 1967-1973 -- Women's Rights, Workers' Rights: Military Rule and Domestic Worker Activism -- The Inequities of Service, Past and Present.…”
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Workers Like All the Rest of Them : Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile / by Hutchison, Elizabeth Q. (Elizabeth Quay)

Table of Contents: “…Empleadas Lost and Found -- From Servants to Workers in Chile -- Fighting Exclusion: Domestic Workers and Allies Demand Labor Legislation, 1923-1945 -- Rites and Rights: Catholic Association by and for Domestic Workers, 1947-1964 -- Domestic Workers' Movements in Reform and Revolution, 1967-1973 -- Women's Rights, Workers' Rights: Military Rule and Domestic Worker Activism -- The Inequities of Service, Past and Present.…”
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Making care count a century of gender, race, and paid care work / by Duffy, Mignon

Table of Contents: “…Conceptualizing care -- Domestic workers: many hands, heavy work -- Transforming nurturance, creating expert care -- Managing nurturant care in the new economy -- Doing the dirty work -- Making care count.…”
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Making care count a century of gender, race, and paid care work / by Duffy, Mignon

Table of Contents: “…Conceptualizing care -- Domestic workers: many hands, heavy work -- Transforming nurturance, creating expert care -- Managing nurturant care in the new economy -- Doing the dirty work -- Making care count.…”
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Sponsored Migration : The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States / by Melendez, Edgardo

Table of Contents: “…Puerto Rican migration and the colonial state -- "Neither encouraging nor discouraging": the making of Puerto Rico's migration policy -- Puerto Ricans as domestic workers and the Farm Placement Program -- There ain't no buses from San Juan to the Bronx: postwar migration and air transportation -- "Every Puerto Rican a potential migrant": migrant education and the English language issue -- The beets of wrath: migration policy and migrant discontent in Michigan, 1950 -- Puerto Ricans as migratory labor, the state as a labor contractor.…”
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Sponsored Migration : The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States / by Melendez, Edgardo

Table of Contents: “…Puerto Rican migration and the colonial state -- "Neither encouraging nor discouraging": the making of Puerto Rico's migration policy -- Puerto Ricans as domestic workers and the Farm Placement Program -- There ain't no buses from San Juan to the Bronx: postwar migration and air transportation -- "Every Puerto Rican a potential migrant": migrant education and the English language issue -- The beets of wrath: migration policy and migrant discontent in Michigan, 1950 -- Puerto Ricans as migratory labor, the state as a labor contractor.…”
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Intimate labors cultures, technologies, and the politics of care /

Table of Contents: “…Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? …”
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Intimate labors cultures, technologies, and the politics of care /

Table of Contents: “…Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Strong women, dangerous times gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Globalization, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : a feminist perspective / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi and Linda Semu -- Vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS in rural south Sudan / Ellen Percy Kraly, Erin Bergman, and Isaac Padiet -- The cultural context of women's and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection in Thyolo and Mulanje Districts of Malawi / Olivia Mechaju Liwewe, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Priscilla Upasani Matinga -- The risk of HIV among women in Malawi : the case of female domestic workers and their experiences with sexual abuse / Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Rachel Rodriguez -- The itinerant male, marriage, family, and gender relations in matrilineal southern Malawi : lessons and challenges for HIV/AIDS programming / Linda Semu -- Social-cultural predictors of HIV/AIDS-related health and preventive behaviors among women in Kisumu District, Kenya / Veronica A. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Strong women, dangerous times gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Globalization, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa : a feminist perspective / Margaret Asalele Mbilizi and Linda Semu -- Vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS in rural south Sudan / Ellen Percy Kraly, Erin Bergman, and Isaac Padiet -- The cultural context of women's and girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection in Thyolo and Mulanje Districts of Malawi / Olivia Mechaju Liwewe, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Priscilla Upasani Matinga -- The risk of HIV among women in Malawi : the case of female domestic workers and their experiences with sexual abuse / Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Rachel Rodriguez -- The itinerant male, marriage, family, and gender relations in matrilineal southern Malawi : lessons and challenges for HIV/AIDS programming / Linda Semu -- Social-cultural predictors of HIV/AIDS-related health and preventive behaviors among women in Kisumu District, Kenya / Veronica A. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Working to be someone child focused research and practice with working children /

Table of Contents: “…/ Dieter Kirchhfer -- Care and domestic work -- Child domestic workers in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon -- Negotiating gender identities: domestic work of Indian children in Britain and in India / Vinod Chandra -- The significance of care and domestic work to children: a German portrayal / Anne Wihstutz -- 'Helping at home': the concept of childhood and work among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico / Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez -- Work and competence -- Children's work as preparation for adulthood: a British perspective / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs -- Working children in Fez (Morocco): relationship between knowledge and strategies -- For social and professional integration / Bernard Schlemmer -- Working and growing up in America: myths and realities / Jeylan T. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Working to be someone child focused research and practice with working children /

Table of Contents: “…/ Dieter Kirchhfer -- Care and domestic work -- Child domestic workers in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon -- Negotiating gender identities: domestic work of Indian children in Britain and in India / Vinod Chandra -- The significance of care and domestic work to children: a German portrayal / Anne Wihstutz -- 'Helping at home': the concept of childhood and work among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico / Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez -- Work and competence -- Children's work as preparation for adulthood: a British perspective / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs -- Working children in Fez (Morocco): relationship between knowledge and strategies -- For social and professional integration / Bernard Schlemmer -- Working and growing up in America: myths and realities / Jeylan T. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view