In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers /
Yeung, Bernice,
In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers / Bernice Yeung. - New York : New Press, [2018] - 225 pages ; 22 cm.
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 Days Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant womens 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 Days Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workersand win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women. -- Goodreads.
Adult Brodart.
9781620973158 (hc : alk. paper) 1620973154 (hc : alk. paper)
2017053297
Sexual harassment--United States.
Women foreign workers--Crimes against--United States.
Women immigrants--Crimes against--United States.
Sexual abuse victims--United States.
Sex crimes--United States.
Violence in the workplace--United States.
HD6060.5.U5 / Y48 2018
362.88086/910973
In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers / Bernice Yeung. - New York : New Press, [2018] - 225 pages ; 22 cm.
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 Days Work exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant womens 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 Days Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workersand win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women. -- Goodreads.
Adult Brodart.
9781620973158 (hc : alk. paper) 1620973154 (hc : alk. paper)
2017053297
Sexual harassment--United States.
Women foreign workers--Crimes against--United States.
Women immigrants--Crimes against--United States.
Sexual abuse victims--United States.
Sex crimes--United States.
Violence in the workplace--United States.
HD6060.5.U5 / Y48 2018
362.88086/910973