{"product_id":"workers-like-all-the-rest-of-them-domestic-service-and-the-rights-of-labor-in-twentiethcentury-chile-9781478013952","title":"Workers Like All the Rest of Them  Domestic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Quay Hutchison recounts the long struggle for domestic workers’ recognition and rights in Chile across the twentieth century, revealing how and under what conditions they mobilized for change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply researched, beautifully crafted, and historiographically and theoretically sophisticated, \u003ci\u003eWorkers Like All the Rest of Them\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to the growing literature on domestic workers and their organizing efforts in the face of legal, cultural, social, and political barriers. Elizabeth Quay Hutchison illuminates the intricacies of social movements in Chile, uncovering the centrality of the Catholic Church to maintaining and increasing domestic worker organization. Hutchison significantly expands our understanding of the interaction between social processes, law, and social movements in the development of domestic worker activism.” -- Eileen Boris, author of * Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 *\u003cbr\u003e“Presenting a series of timely, important, and often surprising arguments, \u003ci\u003eWorkers Like All the Rest of Them\u003c\/i\u003e will find an audience among Chileanists, historians of gender and labor, as well as social science scholars interested in domestic work around the world.” -- Nara B. Milanich, author of * Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father *\u003cbr\u003e“As one of the first histories of domestic labor in Chile, \u003ci\u003eWorkers Like All the Rest of Them \u003c\/i\u003eopens many questions for further research. . . . This beautifully written and engaging book visualizes Chilean domestic workers' life and work.” -- Ángela Vergara * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eWorkers Like All the Rest of Them\u003c\/i\u003e] proposes that domestic workers struggled strategically and made alliances with other social actors throughout the twentieth century to obtain labor rights and recognition. . . . [Hutchison’s] book contributes not only by illuminating a hidden history, but as a tool to combat the inequalities that it uncovers.\" -- Javiera Letelier * A Contracorriente *\u003cbr\u003e“A deeply researched and elegantly written work. . . . [\u003ci\u003eWorkers Like All the Rest of Them\u003c\/i\u003e] is an excellent work that has wide application and relevance well beyond its Chilean context for scholars of (women’s) labor rights, urban migration, the development of democracy, and the formation of nation-states throughout the world.” -- Mark Overmyer-Veláquez * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations  xi\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. \u003ci\u003eEmpleadas\u003c\/i\u003e Lost and Fount  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Servants to Workers in Chile  15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fighting Exclusion: Domestic Workers and Their Allies Demand Labor Legislation, 1923–1945  36\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rites and Rights: Catholic Association by and for Domestic Workers, 1947–1964  68\u003cbr\u003e 4. Domestic Workers’ Movements in Reform and Revolution, 1967–1973  102\u003cbr\u003e 5. Women’s Rights, Workers' Rights: Military Rule and Domestic Worker Activism  128\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Inequities of Service, Past and Present  156\u003cbr\u003e Notes  167\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  197","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408994738519,"sku":"9781478013952","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013952.jpg?v=1730505011","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/workers-like-all-the-rest-of-them-domestic-service-and-the-rights-of-labor-in-twentiethcentury-chile-9781478013952","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}