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In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers / Bernice Yeung.

By: Publisher: New York : New Press, [2018]Description: 225 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781620973158 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 1620973154 (hc : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.88086/910973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6060.5.U5 Y48 2018
Contents:
Introduction: the weight of silence -- Finding the most invisible cases -- The open secret -- Behind closed doors and without a safety net -- When only the police and the prosecutor believe you -- All that we already know -- The ways forward -- ¡Sí se pudo! Yes we did! -- Epilogue: "I survived".
Summary: Yeung takes readers on a journey across the country, introducing us to women who came to America to escape grinding poverty only to encounter sexual violence in the United States. In a Day{u2019}s Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women{u2019}s need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies. But In a Day{u2019}s Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers{u2014}and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women. -- Goodreads.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD6060.5.U5 Y48 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001447365

Includes index.

Introduction: the weight of silence -- Finding the most invisible cases -- The open secret -- Behind closed doors and without a safety net -- When only the police and the prosecutor believe you -- All that we already know -- The ways forward -- ¡Sí se pudo! Yes we did! -- Epilogue: "I survived".

Yeung takes readers on a journey across the country, introducing us to women who came to America to escape grinding poverty only to encounter sexual violence in the United States. In a Day{u2019}s Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women{u2019}s need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies. But In a Day{u2019}s Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers{u2014}and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women. -- Goodreads.

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