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.
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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: "Conversations About Domestic Labor"
CHAPTER 2: Women, Civil Rights, and Grassroots Mobilization
CHAPTER 3: A New Day for Domestic Workers
CHAPTER 4: Intimacy, Labor, and Professionalization
CHAPTER 5: Space, Place, and New Models of Labor Organizing
CHAPTER 6: Social Rights, Feminist Solidarity, and the FLSA
CHAPTER 7: Women, Work, and Immigration
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX
"Household Workers Unite is a stellar scholarly achievement, a powerful and timely political contribution, and a must read for anyone seriously interested in the confluence of race, class, gender and citizenship in the lives of women of color, and in the historic struggles for social justice, in the 20th and 21st centuries."
-Barbara Ransby, Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, Director of the Social Justice Initiative, and author of the award-winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
"Here at last is the story that finally positions black domestic workers at the center of mid-twentieth-century civil rights and anti-racist movement history. In the process of fighting for their rights as citizen-workers, the women whose phenomenal lives are explored in Household Workers Unite forged a legacy that deeply informs our social justice struggles today."
-Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: "Conversations About Domestic Labor"
CHAPTER 2: Women, Civil Rights, and Grassroots Mobilization
CHAPTER 3: A New Day for Domestic Workers
CHAPTER 4: Intimacy, Labor, and Professionalization
CHAPTER 5: Space, Place, and New Models of Labor Organizing
CHAPTER 6: Social Rights, Feminist Solidarity, and the FLSA
CHAPTER 7: Women, Work, and Immigration
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX
"Household Workers Unite is a stellar scholarly achievement, a powerful and timely political contribution, and a must read for anyone seriously interested in the confluence of race, class, gender and citizenship in the lives of women of color, and in the historic struggles for social justice, in the 20th and 21st centuries."
-Barbara Ransby, Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, Director of the Social Justice Initiative, and author of the award-winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
"Here at last is the story that finally positions black domestic workers at the center of mid-twentieth-century civil rights and anti-racist movement history. In the process of fighting for their rights as citizen-workers, the women whose phenomenal lives are explored in Household Workers Unite forged a legacy that deeply informs our social justice struggles today."
-Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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