Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-226) and index.
Contents:
"Conversations" about domestic labor -- Women, civil rights, and grassroots mobilization -- A new day for domestic workers -- Intimacy, labor, and professionalization -- Space, place, and new models of labor organizing -- Social rights, feminist solidarity, and FLSA -- Women, work, and immigration.
Summary:
"Premilla Nadasen recounts in this powerful book a little-known history of organizing among African American household workers. She uses the stories of a handful of women to illuminate the broader politics of labor, organizing, race, and gender in late 20th-century America."-- Provided by publisher.
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