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Household workers unite : the untold story of African American women who built a movement
\"Premilla Nadasen recounts in this powerful book a little-known history of organizing among African American household workers. She uses the stories of a handful of women to illuminate the broader politics of labor, organizing, race, and gender in late 20th-century America. At the crossroads of the emerging civil rights movement, a deindustrializing economy, a burgeoning women's movement, and increasing immigration, household worker activists, who were excluded from both labor rights and mainstream labor organizing, developed distinctive strategies for political mobilization and social change. We learn about their complicated relationship with their employers, who were a source of much of their anguish, but, also, potentially important allies. And equally important they articulated a profound challenge to unequal state policy. Household Workers Unite offers a window into this occupation from a perspective that is rarely seen. At a moment when the labor movement is in decline; as capital increasingly treats workers as interchangeable or indispensible; as the number of manufacturing jobs continues to dwindle and the number of service sector jobs expands; as workers in industrialized countries find themselves in an precarious situation and struggle hard to make ends meet without state support or protection--the lessons of domestic worker organizing recounted here might prove to be more important than just a correction of the historical record. The women in this book, as Nadasen demonstrates, were innovative labor organizers. As a history of poor women workers, it shatters countless myths and assumptions about the labor movement and proposes a very different vision\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pedagogy and the Politics of Organizing in Mississippi
This article reflects on a community-directed collaboration between students at a four-year liberal arts institution and a local organization in Mississippi to develop an index of women's economic security. It suggests that the collaborative nature of the course, as well as the relationship- and community-building witnessed in Mississippi offer counter-narratives to liberal individualism, southern conservatism, and the practice of social justice work.
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Welfare Warriors
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Premilla Nadasen is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. She received her PhD from Columbia University.
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Dobbs and the Politics of Reproduction
The overturning of Roe v. Wade has implications for a whole host of issues regarding privacy, sexuality, and protection of individual rights, in addition to reproductive justice. Sexual autonomy and freedom, not only for cisgender women, are under threat, as Justice Clarence Thomas made clear in his concurring opinion that the court should also reconsider previous rulings regarding contraception and same-sex marriage. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization paves the way to undo same-sex marriage, in vitro fertilization, interracial marriage, contraception, and transgender rights. At the same time, it is stunning that abortion has been declared illegal in many parts of the country at a moment when sexual assault is both widespread and very much in public discourse. Especially because there is no exception for rape, the decision seems to disregard the pervasiveness of sexual assault and create a scenario where the victims must pay the price for the sins of the assailant. Here, Nadasen discusses the implications of the overturning of Roe on feminist political struggle and on the field of women's, gender, and sexuality studies.
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No Permanent Waves
No Permanent Wavesboldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the \"wave\" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.
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Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement
The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, the welfare rights movement crossed political boundaries, fighting simultaneously for women's rights, economic justice, and black women's empowerment through welfare assistance. Its members challenged stereotypes, engaged in Congressional debates, and developed a sophisticated political analysis that combined race, class, gender, and culture, and crafted a distinctive, feminist, anti-racist politics rooted in their experiences as poor women of color.
The Welfare Rights Movement provides a short, accessible overview of this important social and political movement, highlighting key events and key figures, the movement's strengths and weaknesses, and how it intersected with other social and political movements of the itme, as well as its lasting effect on the country. It is perfect for anyone wanting to obtain an introduction to the welfare rights movement of the twentieth century.
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Response to Sherwin and Piven’s “The Radical Feminist Legacy of the National Welfare Rights Organization”
This essay is a response to Wilson Sherwin and Frances Fox Piven’s “The Radical Feminist Legacy of the National Welfare Rights Organization” in this volume of WSQ: Together. It argues for the importance of a politics of citation as part of feminist scholarly practice and discusses previous scholarship that has analyzed the radical, oppositional feminist activism of the welfare rights movement.
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Citizenship Rights, Domestic Work, and the Fair Labor Standards Act
This article examines the national campaign by domestic workers in the 1970s for coverage under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which assured minimum wage protections and overtime pay to many workers. Domestic workers' campaigns for equality in the 1970s were never solely about labor legislation and citizenship rights. Although the question of social and economic rights was critical for domestic workers, most did not see these rights as the ultimate goal but rather as one part of a broader agenda. Concerns about dignity and respect were also crucial.
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