Premilla Nadasen: 3 books

Telling the stories of African American domestic workers, this book resurrects a little-known history of domestic worker activism in the 1960s and 1970s, offering new perspectives on race, labor, feminism, and organizing. ** ** In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing,...

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...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.