Caring for America [electronic resource] : home health workers in the shadow of the welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein. Boris, Eileen, 1948- Klein, Jennifer, 1967- Home health aides United States. Home health aides Labor unions United States. RA645.35 .B67 2012 362.140973 23 Includes index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012). This title is the definitive history of care work and its surprisingly central role in the American labour movement and class politics from the New Deal to the present. The authors create a narrative of the home care industry that interweaves four histories and considers their impact on today's most dynamic social movements. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195329117.001.0001 eng United States. United States.