Bringing Law Home by Katherine Eva Maich - 9781503643239

Name: Bringing Law Home by Katherine Eva Maich - 9781503643239
Brand: Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

Bringing Law HomeGender, Race, and Household Labor Rights\nAuthor(s): Katherine Eva Maich\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503643239, 978-1503643239\nSynopsis\nThe 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 .