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Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
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Chang proves that the women who perform the least desirable jobs-as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, and health-care workers-are the most crucial to our economy and society.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #235479 in Books
- Published on: 2000-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Editorial Reviews
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It offers a much needed understanding of the multi-faceted linkage between global and local issues in today's world. -- Elizabeth Martinez, author, educator, and activist
Customer Reviews
Highlights the unrewarded work immigrant women perform
In Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers In The Global Economy, writer and activist Grace Chang persuasively counters arguments in favor of curbing immigration and eliminating access to education, health care, and welfare as she exposes the racism and misogyny directed against female immigrant workers in American society. Chang also highlights the unrewarded work immigrant women perform as caregivers, cleaners, and servers, showing how these women are actively resisting the exploitation they face. Disposable Domestics is highly informative, recommended reading for feminists, unionists, immigration policy makers, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in immigration issues, economics, women's rights, and fair labor practices.
Informative, recommended reading for feminists & unionists.
In Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers In The Global Economy, writer and activist Grace Chang persuasively counters arguments in favor of curbing immigration and eliminating access to education, health care, and welfare as she exposes the racism and misogyny directed against female immigrant workers in American society. Chang also highlights the unrewarded work immigrant women perform as caregivers, cleaners, and servers, showing how these women are actively resisting the exploitation they face. Disposable Domestics is highly informative, recommended reading for feminists, unionists, immigration policy makers, and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in immigration issues, economics, women's rights, and fair labor practices.
A terse, important book
If only every person in public office today could read this book, and take it to heart... The authors waste no words arguing about an unseen traffic in women's labor that barely sustains them, and their families.
