Unprotected Labor
Title | Unprotected Labor PDF eBook |
Author | Vanessa H. May |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807834777 |
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor prote
Unprotected Labor
Title | Unprotected Labor PDF eBook |
Author | Vanessa H. May |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807877905 |
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, Unprotected Labor assesses middle-class women's reform programs as well as household workers' efforts to determine their own working conditions. May argues that working-class women sought to define the middle-class home as a workplace even as employers and reformers regarded the home as private space. The result was that labor reformers left domestic workers out of labor protections that covered other women workers in New York between the late nineteenth century and the New Deal. By recovering the history of domestic workers as activists in the debate over labor legislation, May challenges depictions of domestics as passive workers and reformers as selfless advocates of working women. Unprotected Labor illuminates how the domestic-service debate turned the middle-class home inside out, making private problems public and bringing concerns like labor conflict and government regulation into the middle-class home.
Unprotected Children in Occupations Not Usually Covered by Child Labor Legislation
Title | Unprotected Children in Occupations Not Usually Covered by Child Labor Legislation PDF eBook |
Author | National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 17 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Child labor |
ISBN |
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers
Title | Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN |
Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
Title | Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India PDF eBook |
Author | Rina Agarwala |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2013-04-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107311101 |
Since the 1980s, the world's governments have decreased state welfare and thus increased the number of unprotected 'informal' or 'precarious' workers. As a result, more and more workers do not receive secure wages or benefits from either employers or the state. This book offers a fresh and provocative look into the alternative social movements informal workers in India are launching. It also offers a unique analysis of the conditions under which these movements succeed or fail. Drawing from 300 interviews with informal workers, government officials and union leaders, Rina Agarwala argues that Indian informal workers are using their power as voters to demand welfare benefits from the state, rather than demanding traditional work benefits from employers. In addition, they are organizing at the neighborhood level, rather than the shop floor, and appealing to 'citizenship', rather than labor rights.
Children who Work in the Tenements
Title | Children who Work in the Tenements PDF eBook |
Author | Consumers' League of New York City |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 8 |
Release | 1908* |
Genre | Child labor |
ISBN |
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Title | Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Labor Relations Board |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1384 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Labor |
ISBN |