Grace Chang

Disposable Domestics

Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Breeding Ignorance, Breeding Hatred
Chapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable Mother
Chapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program Revisited
Chapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare Workers: Emplyable but "Not Employed"
Chapter 4: The Global Trade in Filipina Workers
Conclusion: Gatekeeping and Housekeeping