Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
Domestica explores the often-hidden labor of immigrant workers who clean homes and provide care for affluent households. Through a sociological lens, it examines domestic work alongside broader questions of immigration, class, gender, inequality, and the social arrangements that make household life possible.
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Domestica examines the lives and labor of immigrant workers who clean homes and provide care within affluent households.
The book focuses on domestic work and the unequal social and economic relationships surrounding it.
By bringing hidden household labor into view, it considers immigration, class, gender, and the organization of everyday care.
This is a work of sociology about workers whose essential contributions often remain in the shadows of affluence.
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