Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019

ISBN-13: 9780190874629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Eileen Boris

Recenzje

In this ambitious, insightful, and provocative book, Boris uses the ILO to reveal how notions of who is a worker and what work deserves recognition and reward have changed over the last century. She shows how women shaped this discourse despite their marginalization from decision-making and she makes the case forhow notions of difference - across sex, region, race, and occupation - disadvantaged some and privileged others. Thoroughly grounded in primary sources, her analysis draws from astute readings of multiple scholarly literatures, including the newest research on gender, global labor, and women's history.

O autorze

Eileen Boris is the Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author, with Jennifer Klein, of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Oxford, 2012), which received the Sara A. Whaley Award from the National Women's Studies Association. She serves as President of the International Federation for Research in Women's History, 2015-2020 and received the 2017 Distinguished Service Award to the Field from the Labor and Working-Class History Association. She comments on women's labor in homes and other workplaces in activist and popular as well as scholarly venues.