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Caring for America
Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
320 pages
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12 illustrations
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235x156mm
978-0-19-532911-7
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Hardback
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31 May 2012
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- First history of one of the most important labor movements in modern times, the home care workers
- A sweeping, broad based history that combines analyses of the labor movement, the American welfare state, the rise of the medical sector, the aging of America, and the "browning" of the American labor force
- Essential reading for anyone interested in both the history and the future prospects of the American labor movement
Through a sweeping analytical narrative, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America shows how law and social policy shaped home care into a low-wage job, stigmatized as part of public welfare, primarily funded through Medicaid, and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy. Care work became a job for African American and immigrant women that kept them in poverty, while providing independence from institutionalization for needy elderly and disabled people. But while the state organized home care, it did not do so without eliciting contestation and
confrontation from the citizens themselves who gave and received it.
Authors Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein trace the intertwined, sometimes conflicting search of care providers and receivers for dignity, self-determination, security, and personal and social worth. This book highlights social movements of senior citizens for disability rights and independent living, the civil rights organizing of women on welfare and domestic workers, the battles of public sector unions, and the unionization of health and service workers. It rethinks the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work, all the while re-examining the strategies of the U.S. labor movement in terms of a growing care work economy. An unprecedented study, Caring for America
serves as a definitive historical account of how public policy has impacted major modern movements and trends in class, race, and gender politics in the United States.Readership: General readers interested in labor movements, health care, and socio-economic equality; students and scholars of American history, American political development, race and gender studies, economics, and economic history
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Eileen Boris, Professor of History and Women's Studies at UC-Santa Barbara, and Jennifer Klein, Assistant Professor of History at Yale University Eileen Boris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at UC-Santa Barbara. Jennifer Klein is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University
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Table of Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Personal Is Prologue
Introduction: Making the Private Public
Chapter 1: Neither Nurses nor Maids
Chapter 2: Rehabilitative Missions
Chapter 3: Caring for the Great Society
Chapter 4: Welfare Wars, Seventies Style
Chapter 5: <"Take Us Out of Slavery>"
Chapter 6: <"The Union Is Us>"
Chapter 7: <"We Were the Invisible Workforce>"
Epilogue: Challenging Care
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