Maid in the USA: 10th Anniversary Edition (Perspectives on Gender)
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 workMaid in the USA.–Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice-President, AFL-CIOAn 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 USAoffers a critically important corrective to the popular perception of domestic servants.–Mimi Abramovitz, author ofUnder Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United StatesPathbreaking 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 ofDomestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of AffluenceThis is exactly the moment to read or re-read Mary Romero's classic ethnography....It is wonderful to haveMaid in the USAfreshly available again.–Cynthia Enloe, author ofBananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics