Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State

Title: Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Author: Eileen Boris
I9781720167662: 1708625
ISBN: 9780195329117
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 320
Section: Medical | Nursing Home Care
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement. Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein demonstrate the ways in which law and social policy made home care a low-waged job that was stigmatized as welfare and relegated to the bottom of the medical hierarchy.