Bringing Law Home

Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights

Katherine Eva Maich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2025 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
9781503642201 (ISBN)

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The personal nature of domestic labor, and its location in the privacy of the employer's home, means that domestic workers have long struggled for equitable and consistent labor rights. The dominant discourse regards the home as separate from work, so envisioning what its legal regulation would look like is remarkably challenging. In Bringing Law Home, Katherine Eva Maich offers a uniquely comparative and historical study of labor struggles for domestic workers in New York City and Lima, Peru. She argues that if the home is to be a place of work then it must also be captured in the legal infrastructures that regulate work. Yet, even progressive labor laws for domestic workers in each city are stifled by historically entrenched patterns of gendered racialization and labor informality. Peruvian law extends to household workers only half of the labor protections afforded to other occupations. In New York City, the law grants negligible protections and deliberately eschews language around immigration. Maich finds that coloniality is deeply embedded in contemporary relations of service, revealing important distinctions in how we understand power, domination, and inequality in the home and the workplace.

Katherine Eva Maich is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism
Zusatzinfo	4 tables, 2 figures, 7 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781503642201 / 9781503642201
Zustand	Neuware