Pregnant at work : low-wage workers, power, and temporal injustice /

Pregnant at work : low-wage workers, power, and temporal injustice /

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Author / Creator:	Andaya, Elise, 1976- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : New York University Press, [2024]
Description:	197 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropologies of American medicine: culture, power, and practice
Subject:	Pregnant women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York. Prenatal care -- New York (State) -- New York. Working poor -- Medical care -- New York (State) -- New York. Pregnant women -- Employment Prenatal care New York (State) -- New York
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13475994

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ISBN:	9781479817580 1479817589 9781479817597 1479817597 9781479817603 9781479817610
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and index.
Summary:	"A compelling analysis of time, care, and social inequality told through the lens of pregnant low-wage service workers and their efforts to access safety net prenatal care in New York City"--

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Time and the Reproduction of Inequality in the Low-wage Service Sector
Service Labor and Temporal Governance in the "City that Never Sleeps"
Working while Pregnant: Conflicts between Labor, Clinical, and Gestational Time
Clinical Time and Racialized Inequality in Safety Net Prenatal Care
Cosmologies of Care: Temporal Justice and the Politics of Value
Time to Care: An Epilogue