In a society with an unprecedented history of immigration, those who are often seen as a drain on America's resources cross borders in search of equal opportunity. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women - who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides and homecare workers - proves the opposite: women who perform our least desirable jobs are crucial to our economy and society. Disposable Domestics highlights the unrewarded work immigrant women perform as caregivers, cleaners and servers and shows how women actively resist exploitation.
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Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
Publication Date: 19 Jul 2016
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781608465286
About Grace Chang
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 100s worlds 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