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Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile

Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile

Hutchison, Elizabeth Quay

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General Gender StudiesGeneral Latin American HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 147801489X
ISBN13: 9781478014898
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 1 2022
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Workers Like All the Rest of Them, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison recounts the long struggle for domestic workers' recognition and rights in Chile across the twentieth century. Hutchison traces the legal and social history of domestic workers and their rights, outlining their transition from slavery to servitude. For most of the twentieth century, domestic service remained one of the key underdeveloped sectors in Chile's modernizing economy. Hutchison argues that the predominance of women in that underpaid, underregulated labor sector provides one key to persistent gender and class inequality. Through archival research, firsthand accounts, and interviews with veteran activists, Hutchison challenges domestic workers' exclusion from Chilean history and reveals how and under what conditions they mobilized for change, forging alliances with everyone from Catholic Church leaders and legislators to feminists and political party leaders. Hutchison contributes to a growing global conversation among activists and scholars about domestic workers' rights, providing a lens for understanding how the changing structure of domestic work and worker activism has both perpetuated and challenged forms of ethnic, gender, and social inequality.

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