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The Resource Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement, Premilla Nadasen

Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement, Premilla Nadasen

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"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. At the crossroads of the emerging civil rights movement, a deindustrializing economy, a burgeoning women's movement, and increasing immigration, household worker activists, who were excluded from both labor rights and mainstream labor organizing, developed distinctive strategies for political mobilization and social change. We learn about their complicated relationship with their employers, who were a source of much of their anguish, but, also, potentially important allies. And equally important they articulated a profound challenge to unequal state policy. Household Workers Unite offers a window into this occupation from a perspective that is rarely seen. At a moment when the labor movement is in decline; as capital increasingly treats workers as interchangeable or dispensible; as the number of manufacturing jobs continues to dwindle and the number of service sector jobs expands; as workers in industrialized countries find themselves in an precarious situation and struggle hard to make ends meet without state support or protection--the lessons of domestic worker organizing recounted here might prove to be more important than just a correction of the historical record. The women in this book, as Nadasen demonstrates, were innovative labor organizers. As a history of poor women workers, it shatters countless myths and assumptions about the labor movement and proposes a very different vision."--Publisher information
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
240 pages
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
Isbn
9780807033197
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9780807014509.jpg
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Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement
Title
Household workers unite
Title remainder
the untold story of African American women who built a movement
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Premilla Nadasen
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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. At the crossroads of the emerging civil rights movement, a deindustrializing economy, a burgeoning women's movement, and increasing immigration, household worker activists, who were excluded from both labor rights and mainstream labor organizing, developed distinctive strategies for political mobilization and social change. We learn about their complicated relationship with their employers, who were a source of much of their anguish, but, also, potentially important allies. And equally important they articulated a profound challenge to unequal state policy. Household Workers Unite offers a window into this occupation from a perspective that is rarely seen. At a moment when the labor movement is in decline; as capital increasingly treats workers as interchangeable or dispensible; as the number of manufacturing jobs continues to dwindle and the number of service sector jobs expands; as workers in industrialized countries find themselves in an precarious situation and struggle hard to make ends meet without state support or protection--the lessons of domestic worker organizing recounted here might prove to be more important than just a correction of the historical record. The women in this book, as Nadasen demonstrates, were innovative labor organizers. As a history of poor women workers, it shatters countless myths and assumptions about the labor movement and proposes a very different vision."--Publisher information
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Nadasen, Premilla
Dewey number
331.4/78116408996073
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HD6072.2.U5
LC item number
N33 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Women household employees
  • African American household employees
  • Household employees
  • Women labor leaders
  • African American labor leaders
  • HISTORY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • African American household employees
  • African American labor leaders
  • Household employees
  • Women household employees
  • Women labor leaders
  • United States
  • Schwarze
  • Haushaltshilfe
  • Arbeiterbewegung
  • USA
Label
Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement, Premilla Nadasen
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9780807014509.jpg
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn903873672
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
240 pages
Isbn
9780807033197
Lccn
2015003720
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780807014509
  • (OCoLC)903873672
Label
Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement, Premilla Nadasen
Link
9780807014509.jpg
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
ocn903873672
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
240 pages
Isbn
9780807033197
Lccn
2015003720
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780807014509
  • (OCoLC)903873672

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