Muchachas No More: Household Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Abstract

Introduction Part I: Domestic Service Yesterday 1. A History of Domestic Service in Spanish America, 149 2-1980 - Elizabeth Kuznesof 2. Domestic Service in Jamaica Since 1750 - B.W. Higman 3. Servants and Masters in Rio de Janeiro: Perceptions of House and Street in the 1870s - Sandra Lauderdale Graham Part II: Domestic Service Today 4. Domestic Workers in Buenos Aires - Monica Gogna 5. What Is Bought and What Is Sold in Domestic Service? The Case of Bogota - May Garcia Castro 6. Where is Maria Now? Former Domestic Workers in Peru - Margo Lane Smith 7. Domestic Service in the Latin American Fotonovela - Cornelia Butler Flora 8. Domestic Workers in the Caribbean - Patricia Mohammed 9. a Little Respect: West Indian Domestic Workers in New York City - Shellee Colen Part III: Questions for Feminism 10. Household Workers in the Dominican Republic: A Question for the Feminist Movement - Isis Duarte 11. Politics and Programs of Domestic Workers' Organizations in Mexico - May Goldsmith 12. Feminists and Domestic Workers in Rio de Janeiro - Hildete Pereira de Melo Part IV: Organization and the State 13. Organizations for Low-Income Women in Montevideo: Reenforcing Marginality? - Suzana Prates 14. Household Workers in Peru: The Difficult Road to Organization - Thea Schellekens and Anja van der Schoot 15. Housework for Pay in Chile: Not Just Another Job - Thelma Galvez and Rosalba Todaro 16. Domestic Labor and Domestic Service in Colombia - Magdalena Leon 17. Sharpening the Class Struggle: The Education of Domestic Workers in Cuba - Elena Gil Izquierdo Part V: In Their Own Words 18. Domestic Workers in Rio de Janeiro: Their Struggle to Organize - Anazir Maria de Oliveira and Odete Maria da Conceicao with Hildete Pereira de Melo 19. The History of Our Struggle - SINTRASEDOM (National Union of Household Workers, Colombia) 20. The Autobiography of a Fighter (Peru) - Adelinda Diaz de Uriarte 21. History of the Household Workers' Movement in Chile, 1926-1983 - Aida Moreno Valenzuela 22. In Their Own Words - compiled by Mary Garcia Castro 23. Domestic Service in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Computerized Data Base - Margo L. Smith