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Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
February 26, 2010 @ 12:00 am
The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy hosts JENNIFER KLEIN (Yale, History) and EILEEN BORIS (UCSB, Feminist Studies) this Friday, February 26 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. They will discuss their paper, “Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State.” A copy can be downloaded from the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy web page at https://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/.
Klein is Professor of History and the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework (1994).
A light lunch will be served at the workshop.
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