We have a dream that one day, all work
will be valued equally.
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United [DWU] is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all.
Ai-jen Poo and Erline Brown on Brian Lehrer
02 Mar 2007
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From the Brian Lehrer show page:
Domestic Agenda
Rhacel Parrenas, associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work (Stanford University Press, 2001) and Children of Global Migration (Stanford University Press, 2005) joins Ai-Jen Poo and Erline Browne, organizers with Domestic Workers United, to explore issues facing immigrant domestic workers.
Event
Today’s guests will be taking part in "Maids and Madams" a conference on immigration and domestic work sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Shirley Chisholm Center for Research on Women at Brooklyn College on March 6-8. For more information, call.