Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

by Premilla Nadasen

Book Overview

Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing. In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an historically misunderstood workforce. Resurrecting a little-known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807014508
• ISBN13: 9780807014509
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"