E
Eileen Boris
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 90
Citations - 1415
Eileen Boris is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Welfare state & Women's history. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 75 publications receiving 1254 citations. Previous affiliations of Eileen Boris include University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Papers
More filters
Book
Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a close look at carework, domestic work, and sex work in everyday life and illuminate the juncture where money and intimacy meet, presenting a comprehensive category of investigation into gender, race, class, and other power relations in the context of global economic transformations.
Book
Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States
TL;DR: Men's Freedom, Woman's Necessity: Jacobs and its Legacy as discussed by the authors is a collection of illustrations about home, sweet home, gender, the state, and labor standards.
MonographDOI
Caring for AmericaHome Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Eileen Boris,Jennifer Klein +1 more
TL;DR: Caring for America as mentioned in this paper is a sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, which rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became one of the most vibrant forces in the American labor movement.
Journal ArticleDOI
Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor
Kathleen A. Laughlin,Julie Gallagher,Dorothy Sue Cobble,Eileen Boris,Premilla Nadasen,Stephanie Gilmore,Leandra Zarnow +6 more
TL;DR: This article revisited the wave metaphor to delineate feminist activism in the United States, highlighting the efficacy of feminist waves as we know them, but also challenging this model for eliding the experiences of women of color, men, young people, and others whose activist work falls under a capacious definition of feminism.
Journal ArticleDOI
Organizing Home Care: Low-Waged Workers in the Welfare State
Eileen Boris,Jennifer Klein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the social struggles that forced the state to recognize its invisible workforce in the home care industry and reveal that the home location of personal attendants and other health aides has entailed not only organizing challenges but policy innovation.