Disposable Domestics

Name: Disposable Domestics
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SKU: 9781608465286
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Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

By Grace Chang

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Disposable Domestics by Grace Chang sheds light on the essential yet undervalued work performed by immigrant women in roles such as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers. Challenging common misconceptions, the book reveals how these women are vital to the economy and society, despite being subjected to exploitation and low wages. Chang also highlights their resilience and resistance against systemic injustice.
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Ideal for readers interested in feminist studies, immigration issues, labour rights, social justice, and economic policy, as well as academics and activists focused on gender and race intersections.

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

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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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Praised by Angela Y. Davis, this work has become a cornerstone in feminist studies and transnational analyses of labour, race, and gender. Reviews commend Chang's expose of the collusion between governments, corporations, and policies that maintain a highly exploited female workforce, while emphasising the dignity and power these women maintain despite challenges.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781608465286

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 July 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Edition: Second Edition

Contributors:

Foreword by Alicia Garza
Afterword by Ai-jen Poo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 235

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About the Author

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