- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (22 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415935415
- ISBN-13: 978-0415935418
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,800,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This book highlights the issues facing workers in domestic work, including low wages, long hours, poor working conditions and lack of control over working conditions. Everyone interested in these issues should read the Tenth Anniversary edition of Mary Romero's classic work "Maid in the USA."
-Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIO
"An extremely effective look at the structural dynamics that shape domestic labor....Drawing on the domestic servant's searing descriptions of their low pay and long hours, their insensitive or defensive employers, their worries about their own children and their personal strategies for survival, "Maid in the USA offers a critically important corrective to the popular perception of domestic servants."
-Mimi Abramovitz, author of "Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States
"Pathbreaking in its emphasis on understanding domestic work through the lens of employment, this classic text is as relevant as ever. It continues to reaffirm the importance of questioning both the way our society organizes cleaning and caring work, and the relations of race, class, and gender on which domestic work relies."
-Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of "Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
"This is exactly the moment to read or re-read Mary Romero's classic ethnography....It is wonderful to have "Maid in the USA freshly available again."
-Cynthia Enloe, author of "Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
-Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIO
"An extremely effective look at the structural dynamics that shape domestic labor....Drawing on the domestic servant's searing descriptions of their low pay and long hours, their insensitive or defensive employers, their worries about their own children and their personal strategies for survival, "Maid in the USA offers a critically important corrective to the popular perception of domestic servants."
-Mimi Abramovitz, author of "Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States
"Pathbreaking in its emphasis on understanding domestic work through the lens of employment, this classic text is as relevant as ever. It continues to reaffirm the importance of questioning both the way our society organizes cleaning and caring work, and the relations of race, class, and gender on which domestic work relies."
-Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of "Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
"This is exactly the moment to read or re-read Mary Romero's classic ethnography....It is wonderful to have "Maid in the USA freshly available again."
-Cynthia Enloe, author of "Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
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This is a classic work in the fields of Women's Studies and Sociology. On its 10th Anniversary, it is still a vital and moving study of the lives of immigrant domestic workers, and is constantly cited in the research. Romero's new introduction will offer a fresh look at the material, including more recent events, proving that the issues discussed in the book are still very relevant to today's world.
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A Classic!
9 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
This book is the classic study of the exploitation of domestic service workers in the United States. Kudos to the publisher for providing this 10th anniversary commemorative edition! In this book, which has aged extraordinarily well, Professor Romero studies the lives of those invisible people -- often immigrants and people of color -- who clean the homes of the middle and upper classes. What you learn is troubling and should make EVERYONE who employs domestic service workers think about their treatment. Thanks to Professor Romero for holding up the mirror!
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Little dry
7 Sep 2006
Format:Paperback
This was a fairly good book, in that it presented the issue with a perspective I'd not heard before. However, it was very redundant in that the author presented the same info over and over again, even using some of the same quotes repeatedly. The book could have been slimmed down by 20 or 30 pages and not lost anything. I also would have prefered more anecdotal information, rather than as much literature review as there was. The author also put in "discussions" at the end of each chapter, which were unnecessary if you were paying attention to the reading.
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