The WSU Humanities Center invites faculty, students, staff, and the community to a Brown Bag presentation given by Mia Michael (Assistant Professor, History) on the topic of, "Building on Their Foremothers 'Fights for Rights': Domestic Workers and the New Labor Activism, 1960-2015".

Abstract: Domestic workers perform essential, wide-ranging labor upon which America runs. Yet a fine line exists for this predominantly female workforce between being essential and expendable. In fact, the problem they’ve long confronted centers on their degraded cultural, legal, and economic standing in the United States. Taking Boston, MA as a case study, my talk unearths how supposedly “unorganizable” domestic workers and their allies blazed a trail towards systemic reform of household employment while influencing and exemplifying the broader revival of organized labor into the twenty-first century. In a time of spiraling economic inequality and political gridlock, join us to learn from their struggles and rethink how we characterize labor history.

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