Awards

• Winner of Ecuadorian Studies Section Book Award (United States).
• Winner of Ecuadorian Studies Section Book Award 2020 (United States)
• Winner of Section on Labor and Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Book Award 2020 (United States)
• Winner of Section on Labor and Labor Movements Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Award 2020 (United States)

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This well-researched and well-written book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the work, struggles and sacrifice of working poor women, not just paid domestic workers and not just in Ecuador. In presenting and analyzing the findings of her grounded research in this compelling book, de Casanova provides insightful answers to the two questions she sought to answer: why domestic work is particularly bad work and what can be done to improve the working conditions of domestic workers or create pathways out of domestic work. -- Marty Chen, WIEGO Erynn Masi de Casanova's astute analysis of private household workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador is a terrific study, and will find a ready audience among scholars of domestic labor, Latin America, labor studies, and sociology. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, coauthor of the prize-winning <I>Caring for America</I>

This well-researched and well-written book makes an important contribution to the understanding of the work, struggles and sacrifice of working poor women, not just paid domestic workers and not just in Ecuador. In presenting and analyzing the findings of her grounded research in this compelling book, Casanova provides insightful answers to the two questions she sought to answer: why domestic work is particularly bad work and what can be done to improve the working conditions of domestic workers or create pathways out of domestic work. -- Marty Chen, WIEGO Erynn Masi de Casanova's astute analysis of private household workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador is a terrific study, and will find a ready audience among scholars of domestic labor, Latin America, labor studies, and sociology. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara, coauthor of the prize-winning <I>Caring for America</I>

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Erynn Masi de Casanova is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati. She is author of Making Up the Difference (available in Spanish as Vendiendo Belleza) and Buttoned Up. With Afshan Jafar, she co-edited the books Bodies without Borders and Global Beauty, Local Bodies.

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