Grace Chang

Broschiertes Buch

Disposable Domestics

Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

Beschreibung

This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

Autor

Grace Chang is a writer and activist, joining in struggles for the rights of migrant women and women of color in the United States. She teaches about social science research methods and ethics; women resisting and surviving violence in all forms; and grassroots, transnational, feminist social justice movements. She is founding director of WORD (Women Of color Revolutionary Dialogues), a support group for women and queer and trans people of color building community through spoken word, political theater, music, dance and film. Foreword by Alicia Garza writer and Oakland-based activist. Garza is one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, an organization founded in 2013 after the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Afterword by Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the codirector of the Caring Across Generations campaign. She is a 2014 MacArthur fellow and was named one of Time 100’s world’s most influential people in 2012. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Follow her on Twitter @aijenpoo

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9781608465286
• ISBN-10: 1608465284
• Artikelnr.: 42604566