Events

History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

The Origins of the Domestic Worker Rights Movement

Premilla Nadasen, Queens College
Comment: Ruth Milkman, City University of New York and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 5:30PM - 7:30PM

This seminar paper is part of a book-length project. It follows four women in particular, Geraldine Roberts, Mary McClendon, Geraldine Miller, and Dorothy Bolden, to examine how and why they launched local campaigns for the rights of domestic workers.