| Description |
225 pages : 22 cm |
| 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’s Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women’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’s Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers-and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women. -- Goodreads |
| Local Note |
Steinem Sisters Collection |
| Subject(S) |
Sexual harassment -- United States.
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Women foreign workers -- Crimes against -- United States.
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Women immigrants -- Crimes against -- United States.
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Sexual abuse victims -- United States.
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Sex crimes -- United States.
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Violence in the workplace -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781620973158 (hardcover) |
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1620973154 (hardcover) |
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