Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Labor and Employment Law
Abstract
This essay will focus on the developing forms of legal protection available in the United States to those whose principal place of work is another person’s home and who are paid to do what is broadly referred to as “care work.” The particular services vary widely – from housecleaning, to child care, to companionship and routine health care management for the elderly and the infirm – but the labor market demographics do not: This is low-wage/no-benefit work performed almost exclusively by women and primarily by women of color and of extra-national origin
Recommended Citation
Fischl, Michael, "Serving in the Master’s House: Legal Protection for In-Home Care Workers in the United States" (2016). Faculty Articles and Papers. 491.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/law_papers/491